The Wig Gallery gets an Austrian!

Sylvestius

Got a new coin today, an Austrian 1786-D 2 Ducats (What mint is D out of interest?), although there is a problem with it... (no not my scanning, sorry for the scans, i haven't quite figured out how to do gold yet since i don't buy gold as often these days).


Two Questions;


1] What do you think?






2] THE PROBLEM; - Okay how do you get it out?





(In one piece, bearing in mind i've never cracked a slab before although i'm mightily looking forward to it, Vice? Hacksaw? Chisel? Hammer? Duct Tape...)

Steve27

Use a hacksaw around the edges then finish with the vice (cover the slab with a rag while it's in the vice or else plastic will fly everywhere).

Sylvestius

<< <i>Use a hacksaw around the edges then finish with the vice (cover the slab with a rag while it's in the vice or else plastic will fly everywhere). >>




And more importantly the coin might fly with it... eek.

I was wondering would G clamps be better than a vice?

Sylvestius

The thing that really worries me about using vices and what not, or rather 2 things;

firstly it's gold and gold is soft, secondly anyone who has dabbled in 18th century gold will know the coins are a bit on the thin (and bendable) side (as my mother once referred to them, 'like tissue paper')... having had a creased half guinea before i know it's a problem all too well.

I just hope using a vice or clamps etc that the plastic is the one that's taking the pressure and the coin isn't... the last thing i need is a ducat bent like a love token.

SYRACUSIAN

Keep your nice coin slabbed and stop acting like a baby. ICG has the best holder around IMO, and it will be more easy to sell later.



But if you insist, a hammer is the quickest solution.


edit: just make sure it doesn't become "hammered" afterwards.

Sylvestius

<< <i>Keep your nice coin slabbed and stop acting like a baby. ICG has the best holder around IMO, and it will be more easy to sell later.



But if you insist, a hammer is the quickest solution.


edit: just make sure it doesn't become "hammered" afterwards. >>




But i wanna touch it!

Actually i'm not sure leaving it slabbed would make it easier to sell in the UK, a dealer on another forum has just posted an interesting quesyion, asking whatever happened to GB Certified coins... they set up selling British coins slabbed by the US slabbing companies. Seemingly the idea didn't take off and they've vanished, or at least their website has either gone or moved. They must have given the slabbing game up as a bad idea due to extreme lack of demand. Especially when a long list of UK collectors requested to be removed from their mailing lists after they announced the new slabbed idea.


Slabbed coins seem to take some shifting in the UK. Generally i reckon because it's alot of hassle getting the coins out of the damn things. 2X2s for instance can be broken open easy enough and the coin retrieved for a new life in the coin cabinet. If i leave it in the slab i will lose the coin because it'll be left on the shelf next to the cabinet and not in it, which means i'll probably shift it and forget where i've put it. There's still a few coins i can't locate...

Sylvestius

Although on a good note i've got a US collector looking around for a ICG sample slab that i'm buying off of him. Which means i'll be able to have a practice crack out and see how it goes before i move onto the attempting real thing.

This should be a good, if not nerve racking experiment for me and i'd like to think i'm doing my bit to counteract the slabbing frenzy. Someone slabs it i go and crack it. Pity it doesn't have Population reports to screw up as well.

GDJMSP

Another nice addition - and a 2 ducat at that

Ya know, this is almost enough to make me think someone has kidnapped Sylvestius and hijacked his screen name

coinkat

why not just leave it in the slab? Seriously... that way it is at least safe from all the aspects of collecting that can be troublesome such as Uncle Walter, and now he wants to see your coin, but is just not capable of following instructions... so at least he can see it without you loosing 2 years of your life watching him fumble around with it.

edited to add: great looking coin