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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2995080, member: 10461&quot;]All right.&nbsp; So here&#039;s the coin I&#039;d potentially offer in <font face="Georgia"><font size="5">trade.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/VqZoYtrYxobuIHC13WMi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/VqZoYtrYxobuIHC13WMi" rel="nofollow">Belgium (Brabant): gold Carolus d’or (florin) of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ca. 1521-1545</a></b></font></font></p><p><b><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/8pUN8e5FTsyWh0pLsG4y_Brabant-florin-1500s-045242-coin-V2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s an extremely cool piece of Renaissance-era gold, and I really like it, but it&#039;s unslabbable with a straight grade.&nbsp; NGC just returned it for &quot;ineligible type&quot; (as they did my other two hammered pieces in the same submission).&nbsp; It was formerly in a <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/85188589" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/85188589" rel="nofollow">PCGS Genuine; VF details, &quot;mount removed&quot;</a> holder from one of my prior submissions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, a few things.&nbsp; First of all, my Eclectic Box collection is a set of TPG-certified coins.&nbsp; It&#039;s a &quot;freestyle&quot; <strike>accumulation</strike> collection, and as its name indicates, I don&#039;t have many self-imposed rules or restrictions for it, but the &quot;<i><b>PCGS or NGC certified, or about to be</b></i>&quot; rule is one of the few that still stands.&nbsp; And an unwritten subclause to that is that I don&#039;t want any &quot;details&quot; graded &quot;problem&quot; coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This Brabant piece is a wonderful coin, but I&#039;ve gone as far as I can with it down the plastic-slab-chasing path, so it&#039;s time to cut my losses and move on.&nbsp; This happens.&nbsp; Some great coins just aren&#039;t ideal candidates for slabbing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I realize I am posting this on the Ancient Coins forum and I am fully cognizant of how utterly absurd some of the slab talk must sound to most of you.&nbsp; But like it or not, I signed aboard with that when I began this project in 2013 and I &quot;<i>live by the slab and die by the slab</i>&quot;, so lets not rehash that debate.&nbsp; (Believe me, I understand the counterarguments- really I do.) But these are the rules of the game I&#039;m playing.&nbsp; Sixteen and a half years on the PCGS/Collectors Universe forums ingrained much of that culture in me.&nbsp; We&#039;re all products of our environment.</p><p><br /></p><p>The slabby game has its upside.&nbsp; Moments like this, however,&nbsp; when it creates absurd dilemmas, are aggravating.&nbsp; Believe me, if I collected ONLY Ancient or Medieval coins, I&#039;d bust &#039;em all out of the plastic and go about things in the more traditional manner.&nbsp; In fact, I came within a gnat&#039;s whisker of doing just that this month, but when a slab-hating ancient collector (who you&#039;d think would be the <i>first</i> with a hammer in his hand) urged me to reconsider and think hard before I did that, I stayed my hand and put down the slab-cracking tools.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, did I lose any of you in all that ramble?</p><p><br /></p><p>Summary:</p><ul> <li>The Brabant gold piece will not slab with a straight grade at PCGS, and not at all at NGC.</li> <li>Though it&#039;s a great coin, I&#039;m ready to amicably divorce myself from it, sell it or trade it back to where it came from, and use the equity to pursue something new.</li> <li>I saw and liked the Nero tetradrachm.</li> <li>Then I noticed it was for sale (for €50 less) by the very same folks I&#039;d bought the Brabant coin from.</li> <li>I figure this might give me a bit more leverage than an outright sale or swap to another party (though if I found a different buyer for the Brabant around my cost, that might be ideal, as I&#039;d then be free to spend the equity anywhere).</li> <li>The seller I&#039;ll be dealing with is a satellite of an enormous French company I&#039;m sure most of you can name.&nbsp; So if a store credit of €400-450 is offered by them for the buyback on the Brabant coin (and as of this message I have no idea how that will go), then the Nero tetradrachm is <i>not</i> my only option.&nbsp; It just happens to be <i>one</i> that caught my eye.&nbsp; This seller has thousands of other coins.</li> </ul><p>Thank you all for the advice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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