Would This Be Considered A Slider?
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I know what you were thinking! Nice try. But not this! 
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I've always considered a slider a coin with all-but-full lustre and just the slightest rub at the highest point. Basically, an uncirculated coin with as little rub as you can have to make it AU, or perhaps just a bit of friction/minor lustre break and no notable wear. The kind of coin some would just flat-out call uncirculated.
The lighting on this coin is a bit too harsh to judge, but it looks like there's a visible (and not tiny) rub on the buffalo's leg, and to me, that would take it out of slider contention. That doesn't mean it's not a 58, just that I don't think it's a liner uncirculated coin.
i have nightmares about sliders...
I have indigestion about sliders.
looks more like a curve to me...
There was a dealer in my area who was known as "slider ------".
Everything he sold as bu/unc. was a slider. That is what I think of when the word slider is tossed around.
Yes that looks like a slider.
To me if a coin looks unc at a glance but a longer look reveals AU, that's a slider.
Collector, occasional seller
Well... Not officially... but if you passed the coin around in a group of ten collectors... the opinion would 'slide' back and forth between AU and MS - probably evenly...
Cheers, RickO
The "slider" coin got its name from uncirculated coins put in a drawer for safe keeping.
After opening and closing the drawer many times, the coins "slid" around and the high points developed a bit of rub.
That's what I was told and I'm sticking to it.
Pete
To me 9 times out of 10 a slider ='s AU58. Your definition suggests that the only coins you might consider a slider are 58+'s. Even some of those wouldn't meet your description.
Yes
Maybe, maybe not. Forgetting about plus grading, some AU58s are barely not uncirculated (faint rub, or perhaps a bit of friction and a question whether it came from circulation of some other source and maybe the coin never actually circulated), and others are more obviously so due to a combination of more wear and/or less lustre. That said, we're talking about a term that has no actual definition, so to each his own.
The coins I consider sliders are the ones I describe when I sell them as coins that some people would sell as uncirculated, but I'm not willing to flat-out say they are uncirculated. Of course, some sellers will call obviously mid-AU coins uncirculated, but I'm not referring to them.
If it is a slider it's a darn nice one! Did you buy it slabbed or did you send it in to have it graded?
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
I had the coin for years in a 2x2 flip. I forgot I had it. Don't even know where I got it. I decided to test my non-professional grading and submitted it to ANACS. I thought it would have come back MS something!......I guess not.
I want to address Cabinet Friction! It is wear!
Them Darn NY subway vibrations............
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
And I’m sure if he bought them back, they were AU. Never complain too loudly about TPGs.😎
I sometimes wonder if all MS Saints are technically sliders?
But it never circulated. Lol.
Then how did it get in the cabinet?