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Valued Member
United States
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About 2 months ago I got a Roosevelt dime graded ms70 in a INB slab, found out it's a basement ebay seller who way over grades his coins. Luckily I only spent a dollar on it. |
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New Member
Canada
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Yep....these guys sure didn't go to grade school....and they are still selling stuff, unbelievable.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Some dealers are defiantly stupid. Not sure if a misspelling of definitely or a spot-on observation.  A little bit of both  |
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Valued Member
United States
280 Posts |
Expecting an"INB" Eisenhower silver pr70 in the mail today.I should have checked on INB first.Disappointing info,I hope the coin is silver & not clad.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Coincidence that this post come up today. Last night I bid $65 on a 100 slabbed coins on ebay. The listing said "Dealer Overstock" "BU, proof, and circulated slabbed coins". Right after I placed the bid, I realized how stupid I was. The company was none other than INB and the seller was the one mentioned above. I am 99% that this seller, is the slabber, is the dealer, is the scam. Basically, the guy could fulfill exactly what the listing claims by taking two BU coins, two proof coins, and 96 circulated cents from his pocket and place them in his ten cent plastic slabs. He can grade them as he likes, even honestly, since he did not promise any specific grades, just a random lot. I sent an email to the seller and to his credit, he immediately canceled the sale, and refunded the money. So I learnt my lesson cheaply. Stick with PCGS, NGC, ANACS or any other coin that looks nice to YOU. End of story. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow - if you got two actual BUs and 2 real proofs, you get way better than the average assortment.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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New Member
United States
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I just got a box in the mail from my dad with coins in International Numismatic Bureau slabs in a bag that says "seized property" from Fort Knox. It seems kinda sketchy to me...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4592 Posts |
Yup, it is. Any fool can have baggies custom printed (albeit it large quantities) and fill it with anything, supposedky only & valuable.
It's neither old, nor valuable, nor seized property. It is, however, genuine plastic!
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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New Member
United States
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Has anybody bought ancient coins from INB? I received 10 slabs of Roman coins from them today. Most of them look legit, but a few look like fakes.
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Valued Member
United States
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There was an an International Numismatic Society Authentication Bureau (INSAB) in Washington DC and then Phila.,PA from about 1974 to 1991 or so. The former authenticators at ANACS who did not go to CO worked there. INSAB was the first independent coin grading service also, beating ANACS by several months!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4592 Posts |
And the only thing INSAB (a reputable company in the earliest days of authentication) and INB have in common are three letters of the English language.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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New Member
United States
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I just received "slabbed" coins mostly proofs with no grades from this INB seller whom I never heard of. I paid 13.XX for 14 coins.
The proofs are legitimate. So no big deal. I had priced new empty slabs for some of my better coins, I don't plan to have graded. Since the INB slabs are not sealed which I didn't want anyway. I can now take the common proofs and put them in ordinary plastic 2X2s and use the empty slabs with my own label maker for some rarer silver and error coins.
I don't plan to sell them and it was cheaper than buying new empty slabs in low quantities, plus I got some common proofs to boot. (I needed slabs to explain what I have to my granddaughters when I am gone.) Works for me. If I need more I do it again.
I was surprised I only got 4 "slabs" with circulated common coins. Still cheaper than buying new empties.
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 United States
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 to the Community, bojo360! |
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New Member
Poland
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Sorry for necroposting, but I've just noticed a Gallienus coin sold in a INB slab with description "Constantine the Great era c. 330AD". The guy who described Gallienus' coin like that had literally no idea what he was doing.
Not to mention the whole idea of putting ancient coins into those plastic coffins is sad.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4592 Posts |
Attributions of ancient coins in slabs has always been hit or miss, usually miss.
Here's an idea for you - pull together a collection of the 12 Caesars where every coin is actually a difference Caesar than listed...
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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