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Valued Member
New Zealand
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I have heard a rumor that there is a former pcgs employee slabbing coins in Australia. Is this true or is my friend taking some form of illegal substance  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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As far as I know there are no grading firms in Australia
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Valued Member
 New Zealand
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Thanks bigfella thats what I thought but my friend insisted he had heard it through the grapevine not much longer would you be my baby...yeah,yeah,yeah...oops sorry got side tracked  |
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Valued Member
Australia
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Actually, there were at one stage two grading firms in Australia: CGA (Coin Grading Australia) and ACGS (Australian Coin Grading Service). I have never seen a CGA slab, advertising, grading guide, etc, and their website did not have its own domain name. ACGS was run by Chris Buesnell, and was a little more legit, but he's stopped grading through his comapany and now slabs exclusively through PCGS in America.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I have come across Chris a couple of times.
Next time I see him, I might ask him why he now grades through PCGS America. My guess is that it is some sort of business decision.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Don't worry about grading your coins if you are building a set to start off with. Just build it then worry about the grades of the differant coins.
By the time you have collected the set you should be fairly proficiant in grading them yourself.
Bugger PCGS and the rest of them They are only there to make money out of uneducated people or investers that don't give a damm anyway.
At the end of the day we COLLECTORS decide the value of our coins by their look and feel, Anyway If you like what you have got,all is good
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Valued Member
Australia
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I agree trout. The value of an item is only how much somebody is willing to pay for it. One mans  is another mans trinket :-) |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Dibby you read my mind. I love the way you put it   |
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Valued Member
Australia
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Also agree with Trout. I like (strike that, love) my collection and the way it looks and don't need to pay someone to tell me that what looks fantastic to me is "just not quite perfect"... and I absolutely hate the "slabs", when ever I get a slabbed coin I can't wait to break it out and set it free! why should the poor coin have to ware a label telling the world it's faults? Imagine if people had to ware labels stating their faults as observed by some arbitrary nobody? Mine would be a huge label and among other things would have "obsessive compulsive 50c collector" in there somewhere even tho I consider that a positive trait rather than a fault.
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set your coins free!
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Valued Member
Australia
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Sorry to take a tangent Steve -
I thought one couldn't break a slab open without damaging a coin? Could you elaborate on how you do this? Interested to know :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Tangent here for all of you...how many Mints are there in Australia?
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Valued Member
Australia
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Tangent again - only two mints? how do you get all the different stamps like Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane? are the latter not technically mints?
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Australia
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Tangent here for all of you...how many Mints are there in Australia? Sydney mint is, alas, no more but building still exists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Mint There is a very nice upmarket cafe there too. Adelaide mint advertises badges and medallions but I don't know if this is any relationship to a coin mint from the past. Would be nice to know if this a descendent of the Adelaide Pound producer. Quote:
how do you get all the different stamps like Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane? The C, S, B etc. marks are usually "mint your own" coins from the state annual agricultural shows using a mobile press. C is the visitors gallery equivalent at RAM, Canberra. Jeff |
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Posted 09/17/2006 04:31 am
