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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;YOC, post: 2013938, member: 58941&quot;]I get the same feeling when I see slabbed coins that I get when I see a tiger pacing its cage in a zoo......</p><p>Look at the sad coins just wanting to be held in hand ....... thats after all why they were made in the first place.&nbsp; Patina is something which develops over time and I suppose the encapsulation must interfere with the natural oxidisation process and slow or halt it to some degree?.&nbsp; I know of a seller who cleans coins in a &#039;vigorous&#039; manner and then leaves them for a year or two outside in the wind, rain and sun to gently tone them, rather than using sommething nasty..... he insists that the change, whilst subtle, does leave them much more pleasing to the eye. </p><p>If we are all still about in 1000 years and collecting coins, will slabbed coins be less desirable because they have been deprived of the additional toning they will have received if raw??&nbsp; It may one day be a selling point..... ie. &#039;this coin has never been slabbed&#039; natural patina...who knows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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