Scuffed Slabs- Do the clothes describe the coin
Trime
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I know " buy the coin not the holder".
Yet:
Unfortunately the lucite in slabs is soft and easily scuffed.
Most collectors treasure their coins and tend to protect their coins and their holder. I presume that most holders get scuffed at shows or auctions where they get a lot of handling.
When you see a coin in a badly scuffed holder what goes through your mind?
Do you wonder why the coin has been around so many blocks?
Do you wonder if the coin was maxed out and not ever a candidate for a revisit to the TPGers?
Do you think the appearance of the holder influences the sale price of a coin?
When you buy a coin in a scuffed holder do you send it in for a new set of clothes?
Yet:
Unfortunately the lucite in slabs is soft and easily scuffed.
Most collectors treasure their coins and tend to protect their coins and their holder. I presume that most holders get scuffed at shows or auctions where they get a lot of handling.
When you see a coin in a badly scuffed holder what goes through your mind?
Do you wonder why the coin has been around so many blocks?
Do you wonder if the coin was maxed out and not ever a candidate for a revisit to the TPGers?
Do you think the appearance of the holder influences the sale price of a coin?
When you buy a coin in a scuffed holder do you send it in for a new set of clothes?
Trime
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this is always in the back of my mind i do love older slabs where the slab is clean like it was just slabbed yesterday as this makes me think of a collector coin that has been put in a collection sand never shopped around and then sold after 5 10 or so years and then just to a second owner
the banged up scratched slabs that look like they have been on a whirl wind ytour of many dealers hands
at many shows makes me look at the coin more and usually i do not like it but there are sometimes great coins in slabs that looks like every single buyer has looked at it and left their mark on it or all the residue from the dealer tags on the back
i did see a not so great coin that was in many heritage auctions for like 6 months and the slab was totally beat up and anymore beat up and the coin would have needed to be reholdered just to see the coin for it to be able to sell oh and it was not a good coin
and more often than not the older slabs that i have seen with one specialist owner where the slab was pristine the coins where superlative killers
lol
michael