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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 324590, member: 68&quot;]I don&#039;t buy slabs except for my collection.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mostly I just set aside nice coins for the future because so few people have been doing it.&nbsp; I&#039;ve gone to great effort to track down things like gem bags of 1982-P quarters so I could pick out the few that were nice enough to save.&nbsp; It took some courage to tie up even 25c in a coin that everybody said would never be worth anything.&nbsp; It took time and effort, it took heavy lifting, and it took a lot of patience and looking around.&nbsp; Now that they actually have some value I only wish I had had more courage and put more effort into it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s getting harder to do everyday.&nbsp; You have competition now at the banks and the banks often refuse to provide new coin.&nbsp; You used to be able to find enormous quantities of mint sets to look through but these are mostly gone now and what you do find is often picked over already.&nbsp; It can still be done, but it takes more effort for smaller reward.&nbsp; Or maybe I&#039;m wrong and I&#039;m just passing up a great opportunity.&nbsp; There are lots of new coins around and pricing is much more a function of demand thabn of supply.&nbsp; Look at what just a little demand has done to the price of &#039;82-P quarters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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