Definition: Slabbing is a slang term for the process of encapsulating a coin in a permanent plastic holder, as practiced by coin grading services. See slab.
Also Known As: encapsulating
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Slabbing
NGC has announced a new holder especially created for edge lettered dollars, where the edge will be visible in the holder.
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Slabbing US Mint Sets
You never thought you'd be your parents, putting plastic on your furniture, but you're considering slabbing the pre-1964 mint proof coin sets you're buying. You want to protect your investment.
Slabbing Australian Coins - Is Resistance Futile?
I've only been a coin collector for the last three years, but I really feel like I have joined the hobby at an important point in it's history in Australia.
Slabbing
The process of encapsulating a coin in a sonically sealed holder.
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Slabbing became one of the most ingenious innovations ever dreamt up in the annals of American numismatics.
A computerized trading network that rose to prominence following introduction of slabbing. Had an unexpected demise in 1989 due to internal discord.
This process is commonly known as "slabbing", and is most prevalent in the US market. Two highly respected grading services are the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) and Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS).
The presence of slabs in the market helps avoid counterfeit coins, so the slabbing industry helps you whether your specific coin is slabbed or not.
"We feel that numismatics would prosper if dealers spent half as much time and energy on cultivating their customers as they do on slabbing, cracking [breaking coins out of slabs, to resubmit them in the hope of having them slabbed at higher grades], ...
There are several sellers on eBay who slab pocket change for big bucks buy slabbing far less than perfect coins and putting them in slabs marked MS70.
NGS, known mostly as a coin conservation service, also offers an authentication-only slabbing option.
I have the opposing view that because there is little monetary reward or consequence at stake in grading a coin at the slabbing services, it is easy to give “gift' grades on a whim.
Grading service: a company that grades numismatic coins. Generally, graded coins are encapsulated in plastic, a procedure called "slabbing." PCGS and NGC are the two dominant grading services in the United States.
A specific and very rigid set of variables had to exist for any specimen to qualify for slabbing at that very early stage.
auctions on both slabbed (in certified holders) and raw (unslabed) Draped Bust coins, but make sure you have return privileges from the seller in case the coin in person looks different from the coin on screen. Also, be careful about fringe slabbing ...
 See also: Coin, Dealer, Grade, Collector, Grading
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