The slabbing/grading debate

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why not use my name?????? and i still say that slabbing does not affect the value of a coin, it is the coin being valued not the plastic coffin!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

no swish it was me he was typing about! thats what you get from trying to pass on your knowledge and experience to someone else.

 

i am sending this una and the lion £5 gold coin to auction, it is ultra rare but it isn't slabbed so will it be worth less?

 

I am assuming if they don't use gloves...their hand are at least dry and clean...they didn't just eat a fried lunch...didn't just rub their forehead...etc... I like graded coins because of the protection...ease of storing and looking at coins over and over...without damaging a display case etc... (I prefer modern NCLT). If you watch the NGC movie...you can see a grader holding a coin in the same hand that is typing results in a computer. The damage that could result from that is beyond horrible. I recently sent some items that returned with huge fingerprints all at the same location. I sent them back and NGC was excellent with removal of all issues, re-slabbing, even bumped a grade up on one. Only problem is if you send a colorized coin in and it gets printed...you can't clean those.

 

i prefer raw because of this...
http://www.cointalk.com/t201714/

can you hold, in your own hands, what an ancestor of yours may have once held, in their own hands, if it's in a slab?? slim odds or not, i will take the chance that 500 years later, what they held i now hold. keep your plastic, i will take the potential of physical connection.

 

That other person, at least in one case and if I'm following you, is me. We have know each other through this forum for a few years now....

I did not think his post was negative. G calls them like he sees them, and he doesn't mince words. Sometimes that gets mistaken for being negative. He would contend he's simply telling the truth as he sees it, and in this case (but hardly all cases), I agree with him.

Take care...Mike

 

You are a kindred spirit of mine. Unfortunately, due to the grading game, there are probably those who would consider buying a turd, if it was encased in a 70-grade slab.

 

BTW, which auction house?

Ponterio?