How not to handle your coins

Gets good around 4:10 . I'm thinking he should leave his coins slabbed .

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf6nyVmuHvg

 

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Utterly rediculous. Probably works better with a Butane Torch. Or placing on a RR track.

 

Amusing ! But a little bit painful.

Interesting to hear his anti-slab condescension... then he abuses coins like that. <dude drops 1840 10c on floor> "How many of us have ever done that ?" answer: not all of us, pal !

I've seen big, nasty fingerprints on otherwise glorious 19th-century proofs, because someone just had to "liberate" them and fat-finger them into an album.

 

Now let's see him try to see those coins:
- at the grade on the slab
- for at least the same price as paid

I strongly suspect the buyer will undergrade them.
I strongly suspect the buyer will not pay the same as if they were slabbed.

But since the collector said the coins will be in there long after he's gone, I don't think he's concerned.