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<p>[QUOTE="calcol, post: 4885468, member: 77639"]Major cause of scratches and chips on slabs is rough handling by dealers and auction houses. At any show, you can see dealers playing shuffleboard with slabs, sliding them across tables and glass cases. Some dealers are like barkeeps in western saloons, hoping the slab will stop in front of the customer. Watch for long and you’ll see one shoot off the table and onto the floor. Then there are dealers that play horseshoes with them. Slabs are tossed toward the customer with the hope it will land rightside up in front of them. Finally, there are the “Thor” dealers. To present a slab, it’s grasped in meaty fingers and slammed down in front of the customer. When done playing games, dealers dump slabs in boxes with no separators, said boxes then dumped in transport cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>Auction houses are a bit better on handling in viewing rooms once the slab is out of the box. But boxes have no separators and travel from show to show … like crates of eggs? … nah, like crates of gravel. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":inpain:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Going to collect slabbed coins? Then reslabbing is in your future. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="calcol, post: 4885468, member: 77639"]Major cause of scratches and chips on slabs is rough handling by dealers and auction houses. At any show, you can see dealers playing shuffleboard with slabs, sliding them across tables and glass cases. Some dealers are like barkeeps in western saloons, hoping the slab will stop in front of the customer. Watch for long and you’ll see one shoot off the table and onto the floor. Then there are dealers that play horseshoes with them. Slabs are tossed toward the customer with the hope it will land rightside up in front of them. Finally, there are the “Thor” dealers. To present a slab, it’s grasped in meaty fingers and slammed down in front of the customer. When done playing games, dealers dump slabs in boxes with no separators, said boxes then dumped in transport cases. Auction houses are a bit better on handling in viewing rooms once the slab is out of the box. But boxes have no separators and travel from show to show … like crates of eggs? … nah, like crates of gravel. :inpain: Going to collect slabbed coins? Then reslabbing is in your future. :) Cal[/QUOTE]
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