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Re: BEHOLD! The plastic mountain! (Coin Forum)

storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
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If you folks take a look at the coin forum thread
entitled " BEHOLD! The plastic mountain!," you
will get just a tiny idea of what "crack'n resub"
really means.

storm
Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.

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  • ArchStantonArchStanton Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭
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    Aren't coins a whole lot more expensive to submit than cards?
    Collector of 1976 Topps baseball for some stupid reason.
    Collector of Pittsburgh Pirates cards for a slightly less stupid reason.
    My Pirates Collection
  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    I was thinking about doing the same thing with my baseball slabs. Seems like one should make something out of them rather than just have 'em sit in a landfill for another 40 generations.
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  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭
    What's the point of breaking them open?

    Will they resubmit hoping for a better grade?
  • Lothar52Lothar52 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭
    I dont collect money...i spend it...ON CARDBOARD image
  • yawie99yawie99 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What's the point of breaking them open?

    Will they resubmit hoping for a better grade? >>



    I've resubmitted a few, crossed some, but the majority were simply liberated.
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What's the point of breaking them open? >>



    Smashing slabs is an excellent stress reliever.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    "What's the point of breaking them open?

    Will they resubmit hoping for a better grade?"

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    Card grading standards are largely only REALLY subjective
    at the higher ends of the 1 through 10 scale.

    Coin grading standards run from 1 through 70. A lot more
    room for "subjectivity," means a lot better chance of an
    upgrade. As you can see from the piles of plastic, MANY
    of today's MS67s were yesterday's MS65s, etc. The profits
    are HUGE, and the "wealth creators" get a small piece of
    the profits through grading-fees.

    Unless I could "steal it," I would not touch a high-grade
    coin in today's TPG-market.

    Cards are going to be moving in the same direction. Many
    folks will dump their 10s, resub their 9s, and start the
    path to the next phase of "market grading."

    storm


    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
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