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"note.boy" wrote in message ... The USA will have a President with an IQ above 9 before European collectors embrace slabbed coins, we are far to smart to be suckered. Billy Better line up for your slabs Euro boy, we have a president with an IQ of 7. Dave --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/04 |
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"note.boy" wrote in message ... The USA will have a President with an IQ above 9 before European collectors embrace slabbed coins, we are far to smart to be suckered. which grading service are we using to measure that IQ? because, you know, NCGS 9 may be ANACS 11 ... |
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oh yes......quick, better slab that slab to preserve the grading
standard......before they go and change it YET AGAIN. (Now that would never happen would it?) :^) Ian LOL!!! That was hilarious! Sylvester. |
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Yes I do as a matter of fact, why trust someone else? If you can't
authenticate it, you shouldn't collect it. That is how I feel. Little experience here, back in 1993 when I was in Hamburg, Germany I purchased a Hamburg 20 Marks coin dated 1911. Look in your catalog of World coins, and you will notice there is no such thing. Who do I blame for it, myself or the dealer whom sold the counterfeit to me. I blame myself for not knowing better. Now when I look at it I see the soft details of a cast coin. I should have known better before parting with the 150 marks for it. Live and learn. Now I do not buy stuff I have not researched well and cannot determine if they are authentic or not. Also I looked for tooled coins, not much of a problem with USA coins, but a real problem when you get into medieval and early milled coins. I agree, i once spotted a whole load of fake half sovereigns. They looked geniune from first glance, weight felt right too. But when i picked up the first it had a darkish circular marks (like it had been cleaned in a way), so i put it straight back, the other 7 also had the exact same darkish marks all in the exact same places. (And i mean exact, even cleaning in a circular motion which is what it looked like, couldn't have done that to all 8 in the exact same place!) They also looked slightly weak in strike, so they got left behind. My motto if you can't tell the difference between a fake and a real coin then you either need to learn from the mistake, or you're in the wrong hobby. Ah another person into early milled coinage!!! (I quite like medieval too!) Sylvester. |
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Ian thus spake:
For what it is worth I have a growing collection of `slabs' from the US that are mis graded, mis attributed (ie downright `wrong') to help remind me not to get caught up in the apparent swell from Left Pondia. Left Pondia! I love it! Looking forward to my visit this April to 'Right Pondia.' London. Any reputable ancients dealers there? Looking for good quality greek and Celtic. --Keith |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" It's at this point I take some delight in casually reminding you that there have been coin collectors in europe long before the US was even a twinkle in your Uncle Sam's eye, let alone it having any coins to play with. I've been jabbed with that line of reasoning before. And I take great delight in reminding the Europeans that those of us in the US didn't materialize from spaceships. Good chance that wonderful coin in their collection was sold by my greatgrandfather who decided that parting with it was well worth the ticket price out. not meaning to start another US vs everyone else verbage war btw. I'd rather have my coins in a 2x2 in a mylar pocket page in a 3ring binder - than in slabs. Randy |
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Thats right, our ancestors were kicked out of all the good places in the
"OLD" world. -- * /?\ /___\ -O=O- ^ AS & His Magic Hat A conclusion is simply the place where you decided to stop thinking. "RR" wrote in message ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian" It's at this point I take some delight in casually reminding you that there have been coin collectors in europe long before the US was even a twinkle in your Uncle Sam's eye, let alone it having any coins to play with. I've been jabbed with that line of reasoning before. And I take great delight in reminding the Europeans that those of us in the US didn't materialize from spaceships. Good chance that wonderful coin in their collection was sold by my greatgrandfather who decided that parting with it was well worth the ticket price out. not meaning to start another US vs everyone else verbage war btw. I'd rather have my coins in a 2x2 in a mylar pocket page in a 3ring binder - than in slabs. Randy |
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:45:27 +0000, note.boy
wrote: Slabbing serves one purpose only, to make money for the slabbers. That is too cynical a view for me, Europeans have managed to collect unslabbed coins for 1,500? years. Come now, 1500 years ago our ancestors were likely illterate savages, still waiting for conversion and lucky to live past 30. I doubt they were actively collecting coins. Even as little as 100 years ago the coin collecting hobby was a very small community. It was probably not unitl the 50's and 60's that more average people here started collecting. Once silver was removed the market see,ed to stagnate eventually leading to slabs and coin "investments". While that bubble burst the value of slabs to ordinary collectors is withstanding the test of time. I will be surprised is some sort of slabbing/authentication dosen't take hold in Europe in the next 10-20 years. Americans need them slabbed, sad. Billy |
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:32:15 GMT, Colin Kynoch
wrote: On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:47:55 +0000, "note.boy" wrote: Buying from a long established UK dealer has no pitfalls. Billy Likewise in Australia Colin Kynoch Generally not, Stacks still does fine without selling many slabs at all. |
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:51:53 +0000, note.boy
wrote: The USA will have a President with an IQ above 9 before European collectors embrace slabbed coins, we are far to smart to be suckered. Billy Time will tell |
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