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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2446434, member: 19463&quot;]An opinion or two:</p><p>If you really do not believe in slabs, stop buying them.&nbsp; If you see a coin in a slab that you want, walk away.&nbsp; You will live without it.&nbsp; Leave written instructions in your will that your collection will not be slabbed even though it will result in a lower price realized.&nbsp; When you buy a slabbed coin and break it out, you enable that coin&#039;s next owner (or you) to pay again to have it slabbed again.&nbsp; Of course the style of slab changes so you may want to have coins in slabs redone to have the new style anyway.&nbsp; If you are in it for the money rather than the coins, you will play these cards differently.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would have no problem with slabs if they were recloseable and accompanied by a photo certificate like David Sear issues.&nbsp; There could even be a &#039;sealed for your protection&#039; sticker that would show a slab had been opened.&nbsp; This would not work on US coins where so many look alike but a photo certificate provides a level of protection for ancients that tend to be distinct in some feature.&nbsp; I suppose it would leave us vulnerable to a real coin being replaced with a cast made from it and colored to match.&nbsp; Since there is no guarantee with the coins anyway, I&#039;m not sure how big the problem is.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sorry to have lost a friend over this.&nbsp; I am not proud of the tone of some of the posts above but this venue has never been particularly eloquent.&nbsp;&nbsp; Slabs are not an option for a person like me who paid less than the cost of a slab for about a third of his coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; I hope this move is a sign that NGC is moving away from what I consider inappropriate business practices and toward showing expertise rather than marketing ploys.&nbsp; We will see.&nbsp; A collector my age can look forward to dying before we run out of free-breathing coins.&nbsp; Young collectors will participate in a different style hobby or decide that collecting old coins from a civilization hardly taught in school anymore is a stupid hobby anyway.&nbsp; I&#039;ll not know which.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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