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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 25689470, member: 74282"]The slab collectors will tell you to leave all coins in slabs but most of them also won't buy coins with big glaring problems like "edge filing" or "brushed" listed on the slab and staring back at them every time they look at the slab. TBH I wouldn't either, I don't need NGC to spell it out for me but I also don't want to have to see it every single time I look at the coin. I don't really think your aureii will fetch a different price in or out of the slab because of this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is resale easier in a slab? In my experience, not really. If you can't properly write up and photograph a coin resale is going to be a pain in or out of a slab unless you have somewhere you can go and sell them in person and the number of places for that is pretty small. If anything my experience is I can generally get slabbed coins from amateur sellers on sites like ebay cheaper than similar raw coins if for no other reason than slabs make coins more difficult to photograph and after their coin sits for a year they'll be more likely to accept my lowball offer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 25689470, member: 74282"]The slab collectors will tell you to leave all coins in slabs but most of them also won't buy coins with big glaring problems like "edge filing" or "brushed" listed on the slab and staring back at them every time they look at the slab. TBH I wouldn't either, I don't need NGC to spell it out for me but I also don't want to have to see it every single time I look at the coin. I don't really think your aureii will fetch a different price in or out of the slab because of this. Is resale easier in a slab? In my experience, not really. If you can't properly write up and photograph a coin resale is going to be a pain in or out of a slab unless you have somewhere you can go and sell them in person and the number of places for that is pretty small. If anything my experience is I can generally get slabbed coins from amateur sellers on sites like ebay cheaper than similar raw coins if for no other reason than slabs make coins more difficult to photograph and after their coin sits for a year they'll be more likely to accept my lowball offer.[/QUOTE]
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