Which presents better...

lkenefic

In an album, which gives the better presentation... a lower grade coin in in the key date spot when you have a higher certified version... a plastic proxy coin... or just leave the spot in the album blank...

TrickleCharge

You could also print out an image of your slabbed coin that has been scaled down to the correct size and put that in there.

PerryHall

You could just insert a cardboard disc with the grading service and grade ("PCGS" and "XF45" for example) neatly printed on it. Actual pics of both sides the coin to scale glued to a cardboard disc would be nicer but would also be more work.

Shurke

I voted lower grade coin, but really my choice would anything other than leaving a blank hole.

bsshog40

I voted leave hole. That way I can spot what I'm missing faster. Lol

PerryHall

@bsshog40 said:
I voted leave hole. That way I can spot what I'm missing faster. Lol

The coin isn't "missing". He has it but it's in a slab and he doesn't want to crack it out. I can understand wanting to keep it in the slab if it's a key date such as a 1909SVDB cent or 1916-D dime.

bsshog40

@PerryHall said:

@bsshog40 said:
I voted leave hole. That way I can spot what I'm missing faster. Lol

The coin isn't "missing". He has it but it's in a slab and he doesn't want to crack it out. I can understand wanting to keep it in the slab if it's a key date such as a 1909SVDB cent or 1916-D dime.

I think I would still leave it empty and write "slab" under the hole. That way I'm still reminded it's empty but it's in a slab somewhere. Lol

Mr_Spud

I didn’t vote because I do something different. I like to put in a proxy coin that matches the set that isn’t really the key coin and keep the real keys slabbed. Like I’ll put in a 1916 dime in the 1916-D slot in the album and a 1895 dime in the 1895-O slot, etc…

lkenefic

@Mr_Spud said:
I didn’t vote because I do something different. I like to put in a proxy coin that matches the set that isn’t really the key coin and keep the real keys slabbed. Like I’ll put in a 1916 dime in the 1916-D slot in the album and a 1895 dime in the 1895-O slot, etc…

Yeah... I can see that working for rare coins that have a more common counterpart with/or without a mint mark... but how do you broach coins where that doesn't necessarily apply? A different date?? The 1821 in more of a conditional rarity past VF... there are many more in the G-VG grades or that have "issues".

oldabeintx

I have made similar decisions in the way I display my coins. I have to
remind myself that few people other than me will ever put eyes on the coins, in my case anyway. I have to laugh at myself in these instances.

Mr_Spud

@lkenefic said:

@Mr_Spud said:
I didn’t vote because I do something different. I like to put in a proxy coin that matches the set that isn’t really the key coin and keep the real keys slabbed. Like I’ll put in a 1916 dime in the 1916-D slot in the album and a 1895 dime in the 1895-O slot, etc…

Yeah... I can see that working for rare coins that have a more common counterpart with/or without a mint mark... but how do you broach coins where that doesn't necessarily apply? A different date?? The 1821 in more of a conditional rarity past VF... there are many more in the G-VG grades or that have "issues".

Well, I haven’t come across that problem yet, but I’d still rather pop in a coin in the series that matches the other coins around it than leave a hole or put something in as a proxy that doesn’t resemble the coins around it. I figure that for knowledgeable numismatists that I show the album to that I would say I have the actual key coin slabbed and they would understand and for less knowledgeable people I show the album to that they wouldn’t notice and would just appreciate the eye appeal of a matching set without having to explain why I have the key coin slabbed.

FrankH

WCC

I do have duplicates, but I'd have to want it for more than just filling a hole in an album.

lkenefic

I guess it's a dead heat between a low grade example and a blank hole...

Just curious.... why no love for the plastic proxy coin? I'd have thought it would be better than the blank hole... no?

Walkerfan

My OCD doesn’t agree very well with incompleteness, So I would have to have ‘something’ in that hole. I would choose the lower graded coin.