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Message:: [QUOTE="Virginian, post: 4847250, member: 27579"]That having been said . . . personally I am not interested in coins whose significant characteristics can only be derived from a holder in which they are located. Oh, and FTR, I have plenty of slabbed coins, but the coins inside are still the same coins with the same obervable characteristics, whether in the slab or not.  I don't hate TPG companies, and I really do not understand those who do.  It's just that special labels, FDOI, parenthetical "mint marks", special signatures, etc. don't interest me personally.  Let the mint actually mark the coin with the P mint mark (which I think they ought to be required to do, anyway, as long as they keep calling these items COINS), and it would be a whole different matter.  I do not look down on or ridicule anyone else who is interested in that . . . just not for me, that's all.  Collect what you like and like what you collect! As far whether they are over priced . . . there is a pretty free and vibrant market for coins, so won't the market determine the price by supply and demand?  Not sure how - as a group - they could be over priced or under priced.  Individually someone may offer to sell a coin at more or less than the going rate, and that coin then could be considered over priced or under priced with respect to the market.  But these are fungible items.  So I guess I think the question makes no sense.  JMHO.[/QUOTE]