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Sliders...good Thing Or Something To Avoid?

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 Posted 12/20/2007  4:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbakic to your friends list
The reason I asked is that you hear about certain large advertisers selling dipped or cleaned coins as Choice BU, etc and I was wondering if there was a stigma associated with a slider. I'm really just trying to learn the ropes and lingo so to speak. I would not have a problem with an AU coin that looks MS, provided I was able to determine it was indeed AU and not overpriced.

Thanks for the response.
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 Posted 12/20/2007  4:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Prethen to your friends list
Love sliders! Especially if they're priced as AU and not as MS62/63.
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 Posted 12/20/2007  5:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SsuperDdave to your friends list
Sliders are a wonderful way to get a coin which "seems" BU, but at an AU price. People specialize in this particular grade. The stigma is only associated with those who would overstate or overcharge for a slider.
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 Posted 12/20/2007  5:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Prethen to your friends list
By the way, Jim...good choice for an icon! That's the reverse of my coin.
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 Posted 12/20/2007  10:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Amazon99 to your friends list
Sliders are good when you buying them as sliders. When they're sold as something better than AU58, then not so good.
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 Posted 12/21/2007  02:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Mike to your friends list
Great collector grade. Almost all of the beauty of a B.U. usually at a nice savings. I think many clean sliders look better than a beat up bag marked coin. Many gold coins look fantastic in AU58, and sell for a fraction of what an MS62-63 would sell for. I like em'! Mike
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 Posted 12/21/2007  09:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbakic to your friends list
Thanks everybody. Prethen I really like 3CN's and plan on starting up a collection of them. Something about coins of that era fascinate me. My only question is whether to collect raw or slabbed ones. I'm leaning toward raw ones...Know any good resources on them (books, etc)?
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 Posted 12/21/2007  10:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MorgansRmine to your friends list
Sliders are great for the right price, and sometimes even the top grading companies send them back as MS.
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 Posted 12/21/2007  10:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Prethen to your friends list
jbakic - PM sent.
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 Posted 12/21/2007  12:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hadleydog to your friends list
Great collector grade. Almost all of the beauty of a B.U. usually at a nice savings. I think many clean sliders look better than a beat up bag marked coin. Many gold coins look fantastic in AU58, and sell for a fraction of what an MS62-63 would sell for. I like em'! Mike
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 Posted 12/21/2007  3:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add t360 to your friends list
So say we all. The Liberty gold coins generally look better in AU-58 than in MS-61 and even MS-62 for far less money. As for the TV series, it really went downhill after they killed off the Professor.
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 Posted 12/24/2007  02:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add IHPO8S to your friends list
as people stated as long as your paying slider prices. I have some nice keys in the slider grade.
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 Posted 12/25/2007  8:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add littleboy to your friends list
i love finding sliders that are labeled so because of roll/bag abrasion =D
everyone always talks about dealers overgrading; I like the opposite
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 Posted 12/25/2007  11:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TheForce to your friends list
Coin Vault comes to mind here...
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 Posted 12/26/2007  4:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Twentycent to your friends list
Nothing like having a semi-key Morgan slider in a AU58 holder!



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