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THe majority of Western collectors are using them? Do you have figures Vicky against raw coins? I'd be interested to see where and how you come to this conclusion. Please elaborate more and provide us with the figures. My guess is that TPGs are being used for different reasons other than grade, its basically people using the grades on the slabs to sell said slabs for 10 fold their worth because it says MS70., a slab doea'nt need to tell me That its a nice coin, i buy it because its a nice coin and don't pay a premium of 10 fold because a slab has MS on it. this is Nothing to do with owning the coin, its about cash my friend. So back to you slab V Raw figures, i'll await those with baited breath.

Funny Thing is, i have a 1708E** listed so will interested to see where this goes.

By whom? Its not exactly a huge practise in the UK and as we know the americans do it to have the BEST EVER Grade and sell it at 10x its value

So what is the quote about Tide and feet wet?

I've only ever bought 2 slabbed coins, 1 was for my collection which i cracked out the same day as arrival and the 2nd i'm waiting on but will leave in the slab as its for selling on

There's also a vertical gouge in the English arms. Nice G over A in MAG though. The vertical GOUGE looks more like excess material as it's raised running into the arms and is'nt light, there seems to be a small nick at the top of the shield though which is lighter than the GOUGE. The G/A was'nt noted, which was a bonus

No overstrike in the E of REX, there is one however a G/A in MAG. The scratch is in the REV between the right Hand shield and Bottom shield. This is slabbed by NGC

Agreed John, i've always thought her auction prices were high, this particular coin seems on the High side

Ebay

Judging by the sellers name i think it might be the good people of Harlepool taking the piss lol

Had no reply to My email which in turn makes you think they knew about it. I'll give them a wee call Monday instead, they'll have no choice but to answer my question

I'm not liking the right hand side of this OBV..........Comments welcome...........No mount marks and weighs 15.2g

That one would make sense

I doubt it was a collector, no collector in their right mind would abuse a rarity like that.

The reason the pictures are Photographed so far away is the Grades are not what they say, usually a 1/2-1 Grade more than a coin is. I bought once and never again, grading was poor in my opinion......that's only my opinion, others may have had a better experience, unfortunately not me.

For what the coin is worth i'd personally keep it, it's a decent looking coin and might get you interested in collecting if you keep looking at it

Well if they don't take it back Rob i'll have to take the hit unfortunately...........Will wait on their reply first and see what they say about it.

It was a German one Peter, one which i'd bought from before without any problems and described pretty well, so was fairly dissapointed when this turned up. I've emailed them last night with my plate size pictures and see what they say. If they don't take it back it will have to go on the bay in an auction and let it go for whatever it goes for.

It is a pity Peck, but i knew as soon as i took My own pictures that it was buggered. I'll be emailing the auction house tonight after work and send them my pictures and see what they say.

The tooling marks were'nt evident in the auction Gallery picture Rob. You can see the auction Gallery picture in coin aquisition of the week, a few pages back. You commented on it saying it may have been mounted with the few knocks around certain positions od the rim.

Ausländische Münzen EUROPA ENGLAND - Königreich George II., 1727-1760. 1/2 Crown 1746, VICESIMO. S. 3696 RR ! Rdf., Felder poliert, ss Exact description

There was no mention tooling in the Description, i did'nt like it as soon as i saw it in hamd and will email the auction house about it and hopefully Return it as not described.

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At the risk of a few Boooos from the gallery: I am actually in favour of slabbing. It has its faults, but I think is an improvement, or at least a move in the right direction, on the state of buying/ selling and collecting pre-slabbing, and which we still see in the unslabbed market on the likes of Ebay where, as numerous posts have observed, grades are routinely overstated. I'm also in favour of melting down a lot of the dross which we see again and again. Problem being with the Americans and slabbing is that they're buying the slabs at vastly hyper inflated prices because of what the slab says. Thank god i'm not a slab buyer

I take it Peterkin you're not in favour of slabbing. Welcome to the majority of this forum. At least 90% on this Forum don't like them either, myself included