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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Colligo ergo sum
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4691 Posts |
Basement slab=questionable seller. I wouldn't trust they are authentic.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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Perhaps the coins are real and found in some treasure, but slab does not inspire confidence
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
725 Posts |
I don't see why they wouldn't be authentic. They're unattributable, and it's perhaps optimistic to say they're certainly Greek, but the date range covers pretty much every ancient coin so is fair enough. No-one is going to put a coin worth less than a dollar in a PCGS slab. (It's hardly worth putting most ancients in a slab). The seller has found a way to sell coins that would otherwise go into landfill.
The people that buy these just want an 'ancient coin' and probably feel reassured by the slab, as unnecessary as it is. They might not realise they can get an authentic attributed raw ancient coin for not much more.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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and it's perhaps optimistic to say they're certainly Greek, but the date range covers pretty much every ancient coin so is fair enough I think I'm seeing what looks like a LRB in there and that's not covered by the date range. But most of them probably are. I suspect that the majority are indeed either Greek or Roman provincial (also "Greek"), though a few could be Roman imperial. I've seen many cheap bargain bins full of coins in similar condition in Moscow coin stores; the price tags tend to be around $1-$3 per coin. (Sometimes I find something in there that I think is worth it.) $10 is not that ridiculous considering the cost of (even basement) slabbing; of course if people knew where to look they could usually get coins in better condition for less than that. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2869 Posts |
The coins look real even though the slabs don't.
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Valued Member
Canada
266 Posts |
they are real coins, but mostly junk coins which likely cost the seller less than $1 ea..
Edited by arnoldoe
07/15/2021 5:39 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 Spain
2752 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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International Numismatic Bureau OOOoooooo! Count me in!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1554 Posts |
On the bright side, only one of the ten coins shown has active bronze disease!
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
59 Posts |
Its a novel way to sell 1 dollar slugs. Tbf the person buying these is likely to just want an ancient coin and the coin been real (passed through many hands of our ancestors) is way more important to them than the coin condition.
I guess creating their own generic slab they have found a way way to make some money off almost blank slug coins.
Jay
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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I'm guessing the smaller coins just rattle around in the generic circle hole in the foam. It would be to much extra work to fit that to each coin and cut into the profit. Given they are 1 dollar slugs it doesn't matter I suppose.
Maybe as an item it could act as an entry point to brand new or potential collectors?
Jay
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