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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prime Mover, post: 1827548, member: 38783&quot;]I &quot;slab&quot; all coins I want to protect long-term from further damage or further deterioration from toning.&nbsp; I collect a lot of toned coins and most of them I wish to keep from toning further and more quickly destroying the coin than if un-encapsulated.&nbsp; Also a lot of modern proofs obviously smudge easily and the idea there is to keep those proof like surfaces intact and untainted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I consider any plastic capsule a slab, from an air-tite to the TPG slab holders.&nbsp; If I&#039;m going to go graded, I try to buy all my moderns already slabbed if possible, because most times it doesn&#039;t pay to send for slabbing general coins, for instance like a silver state quarter.&nbsp; I would most likely send off to a TPG for grading/slabbing anything worth over $50-75 and for sure anything over $100+.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me, I&#039;m putting my collection together for my enjoyment, yes, but I&#039;m also thinking about my kids who will get it one day.&nbsp; One of them is already into the hobby and I hope will continue, but if not, if I have at least some of the more expensive pieces already graded for them they should have a better chance at getting a good value out of them if they choose to sell it.&nbsp; They know how to use Google... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can understand the idea of slabbing to be foreign to an ancients collector, but that&#039;s why I have a whole bunch of moderns in circulated condition floating around.&nbsp; The ones that are high quality examples are &quot;preserved&quot; meanwhile I have others that I can pick up and toss around and not care.&nbsp; When my kids play &quot;store&quot;, they can take the jar of junk silver dollars (and yes, morgans and peace are in there) and use them instead of monopoly money.&nbsp; I guess that&#039;s part of the beauty of having them minted by the millions each year... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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