Slabbed coins at shows

I have recently become active in collecting again. In the past there was a lot of circulated errors - but more recently I have become enamored with cameo proofs.

It is easy enough to find TPG coins on auction sites and the like. I have managed to make a little time to get to some local shows. Those that I have attended seem to have extremely few slabbed coins. Is this typical, or just luck of the draw?

 

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When you are discussing material that is at the bigger shows, and trading on the Internet, you're going to see lots of slabs. This is ESPECIALLY so at PCGS member shows. But if you get to the hinterlands at local/regional shows, that's where you run into more raw material.

 

I love slabbed coins but there is a few people I know that like there coins raw.

 

I agree with Kurt. Larger shows, more slabs, smaller shows, less slabs. Baltimore is a good example of this. Slabs as far as the eye can see!

 

There's always an abundance of slabbed merchandise at the local/regional shows here in the Raleigh area.

 

Where you find distrustful, secretive, fairly unsophisticated collectors, as in Appalachian Pennsylvania (those hills you have to cross to get to Penn State) you find lots of raw.

 

I found that for some earlier series, finding original high grade raw coins at any show is nearly impossible; most have been slabbed.

 

I detest slabbed coins. When I do buy one, which I prefer not to, I break them open and put them in lined trays. I keep the little paper notes that come with them and place them in the tray under the coins. If someone really wants to they can scan the paper and match it to the coin with a high degree of probability. In the interim I can enjoy the coin a lot more than one entombed in plastic. By the way, I am talking about ancient and medieval coins, not MS 69 1/2 Morgans.

 

Once you break a coin out the insert means nothing

Ancient coins don’t lend themselves well to grading and it’s an enteirely different conversation in that regards

 

It can also depend on what yo are looking at. You say cameo proofs, very modern or older series? Very recent proofs tend to be very common with cameo and even deep cameo and the prices are low. Often to the point where the dealers don't bring them to shows because they are a lot bulk for little return. At most anything other than very small shows table fees are high enough that low value material doesn't get put out or even brought along to the show..

 

with any key date(s), imo, its better having it slabbed ....

just to much out there that can be or indicate as a counterfeit.

but in recent years, they also have been counterfeiting slabbed coin(s) also

so its better off in doing your homework on at what you interested in buying or selling, imo

 

I wish I could find XF to AU busties raw at shows. They are almost always slabbed, detailed or both. Doesn't mean I won't buy them--I do. I then turn them back into new raw coins for MY enjoyment.

 

I feel your pain. Most anything I want or need now is all slabbed and I won't buy slabbed coins. (Yes I know I could buy them and crack them out, but I just WON'T buy slabbed coins. I don't even look at them.)

 

YESSSSSS!!!! Sounds like me talking, right down to the Bust Half part. 114% agreement!

 

I’m almost as doctrinaire, but not quite.

 

I’m almost as doctrinaire, but not quite.

 

Keeping your original NGC or PCGS submission or order forms can give provenance to your slabbed coins. Helps defend any counterfeit slab claims from a buyer.

 

I never knew why I was saving them, and now I do. Thanks. I thought I just liked filing stuff.

 

What is a 1/2 Morgan?