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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 941643, member: 4381&quot;]They are hardly overated.&nbsp; Take some raw coins and try to sell them on the market.&nbsp; The slabs give much better protection than most anything, give a valid grade, and authentication.&nbsp; Almost 70% of the non slabbed coins on the market have problems.&nbsp; Some people have a strong feeling against slabbing, and i won&#039;t argue the point with you if you like to hold the coin in your hand.&nbsp; But I&#039;d happily spend the very few dollars to put a coin like that in a graded slab.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the comment on the strike - that seems to be correct.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/silver_dollars/morgan_dollars/1883_morgan_dollars/1883o_morgan_silver_dollar.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/silver_dollars/morgan_dollars/1883_morgan_dollars/1883o_morgan_silver_dollar.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinfacts.com/silver_dollars/morgan_dollars/1883_morgan_dollars/1883o_morgan_silver_dollar.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d still slab it if I had the money.&nbsp; Others most hard plastic holders do the job and I don&#039;t think there has been any historic problems with airtights...desertjem is more of an expert on this than I am and would be my goto guy on the subject.</p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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