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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sturmgrenadier, post: 778873, member: 18711&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting coins for four years, and I still classify myself as a beginner, mainly because I still find it very difficult to grade coins. My true passion is collecting raw coins, but after learning that I had bought lots of cleaned, overgraded junk on Ebay and from mail order dealers, I was forced to grudgingly accept buying PCGS slabbed coins out of necessity. I don&#039;t know that there will ever come a day when I know enough about coins (re: grading them) to pursue my dream of collecting raw coins stored in flips.</p><p><br /></p><p>In reflecting recently, I wonder if I have made the proverbial bargain with the devil by adopting slab and sticker collecting: they provide me with some security, but at the price of pursuing a &#039;*******ized&#039; way of collecting that I enjoy much less (for me, there is simply no comparison between holding a coin in a staple or plastic flip (or even by the rims) and holding a coin entombed in plastic). The former gives me a unique feeling of satisfaction and wonder, whereas the latter makes the coin seem so distant and impersonal. Do any other inexperienced collectors hate slabs, but resign themselves to collecting them because of winding up with a collection that is cleaned, overgraded, junk? Does anyone feel more like a slab and sticker collector than a coin collector<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />?Thanks for sharing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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