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Are these coins worth slabbing?

gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
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What do you think if I slabbed them economy? Is the value of these coins pictured worth the time and expense? Your thoughts and opinions are welcomed

David

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  • gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
    What is their value raw? I don't have a Krause book for these coins (dates of 1544, 1621,1627
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,648 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Possibly worth slabbing.

    Krause won't help you with the 1544, as their coverage only goes back to 1601.

    I'd be able to give you Krause values on the other two if I could see them- the pictures are awfully small, the coins are all crooked, and it looks like a black-and-white picture. I can't make out too much.

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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    "Are these coins worth slabbing?"

    Toward what end? To have in slabs? to sell?
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  • gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
    Hope these pics help you all with answering my question.

    David
  • gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
    Also, any ideas about their values?

    I don't have a Krause for these coins...

    David
  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    How much did you pay? And, where did you get them? Can you give us any clues as to their IDs, or at least what the seller called them?

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    This one is Albrecht/Albert Hohenzollern, first duke of Prussia. I don't remember what the proper term for the denomination is. Here's one I have of him from 1545. This guy usually sells some nice ones from this period and other Polish coins. Could ask him for a value.

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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    As for slabbing, don't bother. From what I can tell, tho I'm no expert, these aren't scarce so in their condition there's really no point to slab. Medieval collectors aren't exactly slabophiles, so unless these are rare or in immaculate condition (like some of JamminJ's!!) you shouldn't bother. Plus, not all grading co.s accept medieval coins and those who do may reject them due to bent flans or even the slightest, sometimes imagined hint of post-mint manipulation.

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  • gemini12398gemini12398 Posts: 885 ✭
    20 bucks each I think I paid/ 3 kreuzer was the denomination for the 1600 's coins

  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭


    << <i>20 bucks each I think I paid >>

    That sounds decent, as a ballpark figure. The detail looks good on Al's portrait so I'd say that one is a fair price (book value, plus or minus, I don't know). I don't know about the Austrian ones, but that price can't be too far off.

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  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584 ✭
    Slabs; Nooooooo!
  • JamminJJamminJ Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Medieval collectors aren't exactly slabophiles, so unless these are rare or in immaculate condition (like some of JamminJ's!!) you shouldn't bother. >>



    Thanks for the compliment, spoon! I am unusual here on the darkside in that I slab almost all of the coins in my collection. I do it for a variety of reasons: protection offered by the holder, ease of resale when the time comes, authentification and the educational process of guessing the grades. I actually use the "will it slab and at what grade?" question to help me decide on what to purchase. Now that you know where I'm coming from, on to your coins...

    The 1627 coin is an Austrian 3 kreuzer. Your pictures a kind of tought to tell and the catalog pictures are worse by my best guess this is the KM498 variety. While the catalog does not list that year for the type, stopping in 1626, the inverted chevron in teh obverse legend denotes the St. Polten mint. Values for common dates of these coins are:$18 in VG, $35 in F and $65 in VF - it's a better mint. I would not slab this coin as it appears to have subtantial environmental damage.

    The 1670 coin is another 3 kreuzer, this one from the Austrian State (Bishopric) of Olmutz. Without question this one is a KM65.2 which is values at $22.50 in VF and $38 in XF with nothing higher. It's hard to tell from the photos what I'd do with this one. If the hair is worn I would not submit but if it's striking issues then in it goes! Coins on which I cannot tell also get submitted with the slabbing fee considered tutition.

    -JamminJ
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