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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 84961, member: 3011&quot;]tcore - My experience was basically the same as yours.&nbsp; I was interested in buying slabbed but circulated [or low mint state] gold Liberty coins, but all three local dealers explained how this was a mistake and they didn&#039;t/wouldn&#039;t carry the coins or recommend their purchase.&nbsp; The knee-jerk reaction of the dealer is to pull out their inevitable slabbed MS64 St Gaudens and go into the rehearsed speech about how that is a superior coin to buy.&nbsp; So I moved on to other things I like to collect.&nbsp; I don&#039;t understand why this idea isn&#039;t considered something coin dealers want to market or support.&nbsp; An XF $20 Liberty will still generate more revenue for the dealer than a common date MS64 Morgan dollar, for example.&nbsp; There is a stigma against slabbed circulated coins that extends even to 100 year old gold.&nbsp; There are many &quot;blind spots&quot; in this hobby, and you stumbled on one of them that bugs me.&nbsp; People will rush to slab their $150 Morgan dollar, and at the same time won&#039;t even think to slab their $500 gold Liberty because it is &quot;circulated.&quot;&nbsp; But knowing that the coin is authentic and the approximate grade is a great benefit to someone like me because I&#039;m not particularly confident about my grading skills, but I love the old gold coins.&nbsp; And I&#039;d rather buy two $20 circulated Liberties instead of one really nice MS St Gaudens.&nbsp; That is my personal preference, but the hobby doesn&#039;t make it easy to pursue.&nbsp; It is also disturbing to have people with more experience and knowledge about numismatics to explain how I&#039;m making a mistake with a fairly sizeable dollar purchase, so it sort of killed my enthusiasm for the whole idea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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