Buy The Coin, Not The Plastic. (Heard That Before?)

You often hear words of wisdom and think, that your safer buying a slabbed coin. Well the best thing to do before the purchase is to check to see if it is what the label claims it is. That is a better practice to do before the purchase. Sometimes even grading companies make mistakes. I was looking for the a DDR on the 1956 DDR on my favorite image site source. I was looking at the listing and then I found the FS-801 listing on the site. A nice strong DDR. Well I down loaded the image to prepare the variety for my files. Then noticed it looked weaker. So I found a second example and it looked a bit closer. So I look some more and found a third listing and it was the DDR. While the wrong slabbed examples looked like a DDR, I decided to make side by sides of these devices and compare it with a normal wheat reverse. This is what I discovered:




These mistakes don't happen often, but the attributer looked at Machine Doubling instead of looking the spread of the devices. So seeing that you are getting the right coin will work out better when you go to sell them. Seeing these side by side will help to find out if it is the real deal or not. Best to know this before the purchase. Mistakes can happen. So take a good look to be sure that you are getting the real deal or not. They could be a different die number, but they are not a match to the FS-801.

CoopHome: what is the best way to compare variety coins? side by sides are the best. that way you can see if they are a match to a certain die number, or not.