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Message:: [QUOTE="Michael K, post: 3573528, member: 78298"]Coins are tactile. There is pleasure in holding them and looking at them.If a guy wants to keep them in sealed paper tubes and closed bags and never open them, that's his choice.But I have to agree with John Milton and Sallent on this one.I used to buy "unopened" old wax packs of baseball cards. Most were genuine.Perhaps some were not. But the joy is in opening them and seeing what may be in there. (I pulled 2 Cal Ripken rookies among others.) But there are people who buy them and never open them. They display them in packs, that will remain unopened.They are even GRADED and encased in a plastic tomb as an unopened pack.Like I said they can do what they want, it's their money, it's their collection.But I don't understand it and I will never understand it.If you are trying for future value, these coins were produced in massive numbers. The highest graded coins and lowest mintage coins (S coins) willprobably be worth about double their value in the future. But most of them are going to be face value coins that you paid a premium for.He argues that these coins are MS-70 because they are in OGP. It's possible that 1 out of a 1000 might be MS-70 although that is unlikely and prob a 68 or 69 but most of them are going to be in the 65 range.[/QUOTE]