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Buy the slab...not the coin.

topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Let's all give up. Numessamists...........nusmistamests....... COIN collectors are dinosaurs and the slab has hit the earth. Someday, they'll find bones holding a raw coin and smiling.
Scientists will KNOW he was very ancient. They will gaze in sympathetic wonder.


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  • fantasiizefantasiize Posts: 667
    Yeah, but if they only find one skeleton with a slab-in-hand and that slab is an ACG, will they consider that generation/lineage intellectually challenged ??
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    I also love Major Circulation Strike Type Sets, clad Washingtons ('65 to '98) and key date coins !!!!!

    If ignorance is bliss, shouldn't we have more happy people ??
  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Let's all give up. Numessamists...........nusmistamests....... COIN collectors are dinosaurs and the slab has hit the earth. Someday, they'll find bones holding a raw coin and smiling.
    Scientists will KNOW he was very ancient. They will gaze in sympathetic wonder. >>


    That raw coin find will be toned, I'll bet.
  • fantasiizefantasiize Posts: 667
    In fact, what if it is Dorkkarl and in one hand he had a slab and in another he had a hammer (which was NOT found when the skeleton and slab were found together) what would future archaeologists think ??
    My eBay Items

    I love Ike dollars and all other dollar series !!!

    I also love Major Circulation Strike Type Sets, clad Washingtons ('65 to '98) and key date coins !!!!!

    If ignorance is bliss, shouldn't we have more happy people ??
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Did somebody say they wanted to buy slabs?

    image

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • fantasiizefantasiize Posts: 667
    Wow, that is at least $100 (minimum, depending on service originally used) for that hardened oil.
    My eBay Items

    I love Ike dollars and all other dollar series !!!

    I also love Major Circulation Strike Type Sets, clad Washingtons ('65 to '98) and key date coins !!!!!

    If ignorance is bliss, shouldn't we have more happy people ??
  • VonZipperVonZipper Posts: 707
    Russ, did you send back the inserts? image

    Pennies make dollars, and dollars make slabs!

    ....inflation must be kicking in again this dollar says spend by Dec. 31 2004!

    Erik
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    The pile is actually much bigger now. Just haven't gotten around to shooting a new pic.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • K6AZK6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭
    Nothing beats this pile o' slabs....

    image
  • VonZipperVonZipper Posts: 707
    k6az---- Did those come with the Whitman Sampler?

    Pennies make dollars, and dollars make slabs!

    ....inflation must be kicking in again this dollar says spend by Dec. 31 2004!

    Erik
  • K6AZK6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭
    No, that was courtesy of Sally, the choc-o-holic.
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Topstuf's post got me thinking. There are special terms for those wh collect stamps (Philatalist), coins (Numismatist), paper money (Scripoligist) (sp), transportation tokens (Vecturist), and tokens/medals (exonumist). We need a term for people who collect slabs.

    "Crazy" is NOT a suitible suggestion! image
  • ConstellatioCollectorConstellatioCollector Posts: 1,909
    How about "Slabologists"?
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  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784 ✭
    Slabmatists ... slobmatists?



    The Ludlow Collection (DCAM/CAM)
    The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)

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  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    "Maslabochists"

    Darn, after all this lurking, somehow I didn't think my first post would be along these lines.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about plasticists. or plastophiles?

    Welcome aboard Deadhorse. We have been known to be hard on deadhorses here,
    but we'll no doubt try to make an exception for you.
    Tempus fugit.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Plastologists? Numismoplastocists? Numismoplastologists.


    I kinda like that last one. It's just crazy enough to say it all.image
    Tempus fugit.
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    Morris, don't plastologists perform slabectomys?

  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Slabectomies are performed only in successful cross-over operations
    and are very highly valued by numismoplastologists.
    Tempus fugit.
  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭


    << <i>Welcome aboard Deadhorse. We have been known to be hard on deadhorses here,
    but we'll no doubt try to make an exception for you. >>



    Aw....come on now, nobody beats a deadhorse image

    Thanks for the welcome. I'm looking forward to asking a few questions and listening alot.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • ElectricEyeElectricEye Posts: 2,354
    I believe K6AZ is engaged in a contest to see how many ACG slabs a person can amass...image
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    just keep in mind that in the days of the dinosaur, that slabbed coin was
    nothing more than a lump of ore and a cup of crude oil, more or less...
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    and with that observation, I am...
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    now
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    at
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    five
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    hundred
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    posts! image

    Hopefully only the last 1% have been totally worthless image
  • fantasiizefantasiize Posts: 667
    About a year ago (or so) I had coined the phrase (pun totally intended) of "Slabby Joes".

    Some folks liked that others didn't (unlike anything else on the boards or in life).
    My eBay Items

    I love Ike dollars and all other dollar series !!!

    I also love Major Circulation Strike Type Sets, clad Washingtons ('65 to '98) and key date coins !!!!!

    If ignorance is bliss, shouldn't we have more happy people ??
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about

    Coinal retentives

    ?????

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