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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 6370287, member: 115909&quot;]I think a lot of people like the protection of the slabs. I know I am one and a couple others have mentioned it as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>By “buy the coin not the slab” I think what is meant is that the slab shouldn’t be the main reason you buy the coin. I mean a lot of times the only choices of particular coins are all slabbed. If I go into my local coin store and say “I’d like an MS 1884 CC Morgan Dollar” he would have a lot of slabbed ones and probably not a single unslabbed BU one. But if you see two slabbed coins and one with a lower grade looks better than one with a higher grade get the one that’s lower graded. But that would require learning to grade that stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for me a slab just ensures my clumsy self won’t damage a valuable piece of history by dropping it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because I know I will drop one eventually. It will happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a matter of fact a slabbed coin does seem less likely to be dropped than a raw coin in one’s hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>Especially the tiny coins like the gold $0.25 pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>No one can say “for sure” that they know 100% that they will never ever accidentally drop a coin. No one is perfect and accidents happen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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