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<p>[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 2577398, member: 77704"]Let me explain....</p><p><br /></p><p>I like to look at my coins all the time, they are all housed in saflips/ in Lighthouse albums. Of course, I have some modern proof sets housed in presentation boxes too. All of my coins are from auctions, so when I get one that is not in a "saflip", I wear "coin handling gloves" and carefully remove coin from auction flip/ transfer it to a saflip. Then, I remove auction data tag and slip it into saflip(not the one housing coin) After that it goes into one of my Lighthouse albums. 95 percent of my 1100 or so AV/AR coins are "mintstate" so I want them to remain so. I have seen many modern proof coins with fingerprints/ quality down from MS-70 to MS 65 or lower. 70 percent of my coll. are gold, which is not as sensitive to toning/marks as silver. I also have 115 AV coins housed in slabs, which do a great job of protecting them from harm. As to how some coins can remain flawless after hundreds of years and longer....thank God there were nice people back then that carefully preserved them in their collection! Here is my </p><p>Imperial Rome AV Aureus 286AD Rome Mint Emperor Diocletianus FDC[ATTACH=full]558901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]558902[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 2577398, member: 77704"]Let me explain.... I like to look at my coins all the time, they are all housed in saflips/ in Lighthouse albums. Of course, I have some modern proof sets housed in presentation boxes too. All of my coins are from auctions, so when I get one that is not in a "saflip", I wear "coin handling gloves" and carefully remove coin from auction flip/ transfer it to a saflip. Then, I remove auction data tag and slip it into saflip(not the one housing coin) After that it goes into one of my Lighthouse albums. 95 percent of my 1100 or so AV/AR coins are "mintstate" so I want them to remain so. I have seen many modern proof coins with fingerprints/ quality down from MS-70 to MS 65 or lower. 70 percent of my coll. are gold, which is not as sensitive to toning/marks as silver. I also have 115 AV coins housed in slabs, which do a great job of protecting them from harm. As to how some coins can remain flawless after hundreds of years and longer....thank God there were nice people back then that carefully preserved them in their collection! Here is my Imperial Rome AV Aureus 286AD Rome Mint Emperor Diocletianus FDC[ATTACH=full]558901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]558902[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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