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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treehugger, post: 1642514, member: 28451&quot;]I don&#039;t know if I&#039;m in the majority or the minority, but I purchase a coin for 1 reason only.......because I like it for 1 reason or another.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t care what it will be worth in the future, I don&#039;t care what it will grade.&nbsp; I buy it for me because I like it right now and I want to enjoy it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t buy into the obsession with having the &quot;best&quot; or &quot;premium&quot; or &quot;artisinal&quot; or &quot;hand-crafted&quot; or all of the other BS marketing jargon that people fall for.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like my coins to be in their original packaging because I can take them out of their capsules and hold them in my hand and look at them up closely and see the light reflect off of them at different angles.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s right.........I said it.&nbsp; I actually touch my coins (by the rim, of course).</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t like graded coins because the slabs are easily scratched and nicked and that impedes my view of the beauty of the coin.&nbsp; Even an unmarred slab generates imperfections due to the plastic itself, as the light reflects off of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with most of the comments here thus far, in that there are reasons to have some coins graded, but I don&#039;t see the point with most modern releases.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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