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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3553342, member: 90666&quot;]I love to see underpriced slabs. I buy them and break them out. My slab breaker is 2500 years old and a couple kilos weight: this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]944440[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t get too worked up about the demerits of slabbing. If a coin is underpriced due to having a low slab grade, and I like it, I buy it. What I have found is that the buyers of slabs are so focused on grade, that they will often bid very high prices on coins of very bad style, or for strikes that, even if they merit 4/5 or more, are bad in a way that I would find unacceptable, for example cutting off the heads of charioteers or horses on a reverse scene. Slab collectors buy bad coins just because they are sharp. And the reverse happens too. They don&#039;t bid on coins in EF condition with perfect strikes, exquisite style fresh dies, and beautiful old toning, because EF (or VF or a rare F) doesn&#039;t make their grade. They also don&#039;t buy rarities because they don&#039;t make their minimum condition grade, such as the coin discussed here. Fine with me. I&#039;ll buy them. We have different collecting interests. I think my interests are better informed and more educated. I am buying coins that are beautiful and/or. They buy coins that are sharp. Let them. I know what is good. I have my Slab Hammer for what they overlook.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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