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Slider: A good thing?
julie43
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I have seen 2 auctions on the bay where people call a coin a slider and the coin has excellant detail, why would they say slider? Is it some type of search word?
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Cabinet friction!!
Now there's a term you hardly ever hear anymore.
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"America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
...........isn't a slider a trombone?...
<< <i>A burger at White Castle.....
What's a "White Castle", that's a new one for me.
By the way, I recently created a coin cabinet and my coins are sliding around on it, does that make my coins "sliders" now? They were only VF or XF.
ya get a scratched slab...which aint half as bad!
.....i think white castle is a fast food joint....like burger king.
slider,
A term used to describe an AU coin that looks, or can be sold as, Uncirculated. Occasionally used as a reference to another grade; a slider EF coin, for example, would be a VF/EF coin that is nearly EF.
my early American coins & currency: -- http://yankeedoodlecoins.com/
acquire the wear in circulation or from improper storage. When they're gemmy
I usually just figured a collector removed it from circulation because it was so
nice.
They're often great coins and sometimes junk. So long as you may an AU price
or pass on the junk they're great coins. In rare cases modern sliders are pref-
erable to uncs since uncs often look bad.
<< <i>A slider is an AU coin listed on eBay as UNC. >>
That's the one.
I think a slider is an AU coin. They are the best thing going if you are building a collection. If you take a 60 or 62 to a coin show, you're gonna be told it's a slider anyway so why not buy the slider in the first place? At least they can't knock it to an XF45 when you sell it.
NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!
RIP "BEAR"
<< <i>Cabinet friction!!
Now there's a term you hardly ever hear anymore. >>
Maybe not on the Liteside, but it's alive and well on the Darkside.
"Slider" can have both negative and positive connotations. I remember one mailorder dealer in the magazines used to have a little blurb at the top of the page saying this was "No Slider Country", or something like that. In other words, he was saying, "I don't sell slider coins as BU like the other reprobates", which is a good slogan for a mailorder dealer to have, because that is exactly what a lot of the sight-unseen mailorder "BUs" were.
"Slider" is a bad word to hear if you think you bought a BU/Mint State coin, and paid accordingly.
It can, however, be a beautiful thing, if you knowingly bought a slider and paid AU money or less. Sliders are meaty coins that pack the most bang for the buck. They usually pack Uncirculated eye appeal for a circulated pricetag. A nice sip of champagne for someone on a beer budget, to borrow from the old saying.
<< <i> Amen Curly!! That is so true. >>
<< <i>Slider: A good thing? >>
You tell me...
ebay slider
And I had one other potential buyer second in line. Wasn't even trying to sell it, yet. It just happened.
Such is the power of a nice slider, at slider money.
Edit to add: the seller of the Columbian half in the eBay link above desperately needs glasses. Or already has some decidedly rose-colored ones.
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<< <i>Slider: A good thing? >>
You tell me...
ebay slider >>
The really funny thing is that people get a chuckle out of this but freak out when an ebay seller puts up a $200 Morgan in a third tier slab that is over graded a couple points.