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I don't get it... why do people slab coins like this?

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    orevilleoreville Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe someone might want it as a grading test slab?

    Or a gag gift???????????????????
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    StoogeStooge Posts: 4,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My question would be: Why would anyone want to buy this coin?

    You can literally go to the bank and get a roll of nickels and get 10 or so that look better then this.

    Later, Paul.

    Later, Paul.
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    dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Because it looked MS. Happens all the time with older coins. Just doesn't have the side effects as them.
    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
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    Dennis88Dennis88 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Because it looked MS. Happens all the time with older coins. Just doesn't have the side effects as them. >>



    It isn't that old, only 11 years....

    Dennis
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    I think it's neat that someone took the time to slab this coin! I may even bid on it. Sometimes ( most times?) we take this game way too serious.
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    RampageRampage Posts: 9,418 ✭✭✭✭
    I would think because it is for a grading set?

    I was trying to put together a grading set of 1971-D IKE dollars once. I am currently working on putting together a grading set of 1979-P Wide Rim SBA dollars. Almost there, too. image
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    BubbleheadBubblehead Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭
    I have gotten into doing grading sets, too.
    It seems foolish, but when you have a whole line of slabs, in grade increments, it's really very nice...image
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    MJPHELANMJPHELAN Posts: 760 ✭✭✭
    It is likely they submitted the coin thinking it was MS and did not notice the rub. I have one or two suprises like that. I keep them around as a symbol of a hard lesson learned.

    Mark
    Mark
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    cohodkcohodk Posts: 18,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It might be a POP-1image
    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

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    BubbleheadBubblehead Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭
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    It IS a POP 1...!!!

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    Consider it a novelty item!
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    Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    It probably came from a bank roll, and PCGS mistook the cheack rub for wear.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
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    GTOsterGTOster Posts: 860 ✭✭✭
    How is this for haven all your duck's in a row
    Couldn't do it again if I tried

    1 21559520 1964 50C Accented Hair USA PR67
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    1 21559519 1964 50C Accented Hair USA PR66
    Paul
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,515 ✭✭✭
    The coin in the auction may have the excuse that the submitter thought it was MS, but I'd sure like to know the thought process for whomever submitted this one:

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    POP 1, PR60 none worse! image

    Russ, NCNE
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