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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1506057, member: 15309&quot;]Eddie, the <a href="http://www.usrarecoininvestments.com/newsletter/newsletter_50_collecting_investing_a_box_of_twenty_the_idea.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usrarecoininvestments.com/newsletter/newsletter_50_collecting_investing_a_box_of_twenty_the_idea.htm" rel="nofollow">Box of 20 Concept</a> is a collecting-investment strategy that involves buying high value conditionally rare coins in a diversified group to help ensure growth.&nbsp; The number 20 is derived from the fact that TPG boxes hold 20 coins.&nbsp; Since it was first introduced, the box of 20 concept has also been adopted by collectors as a way to ensure that they are buying quality over quantity.&nbsp; Either way, it usually entails buying high value coins.&nbsp; My example gave a minimum value of $1K per coin.&nbsp; You stated that anybody who will only buy slabbed coins should be committed.&nbsp; My question is, would you advise someone who is only buying $1K+ coins to buy raw coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>You might find this hard to believe, but I have never purchased a coin sight seen.&nbsp; Every coin I have purchased as an adult has been on the internet with only photos as my guide to the appearance of the coin.&nbsp; Admittedly, I am pretty good at interpreting images and predicting what coins will look like in hand but if the TPG&#039;s didn&#039;t exist, I would probably have a different hobby.&nbsp; There is no way I would pay the amount of money I have for sight unseen raw coins.&nbsp; There are very few B&amp;M coin shops in my area and the ones that do exist are basically bullion traders.&nbsp; Slabs &amp; stickers provide the consumers in the market the confidence to purchase coins with the knowledge that they will get what they paid for.&nbsp; The stability they bring to hobby is severely underrated IMO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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