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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1574873, member: 4626"]You get a lot of dirt on details slabs? I've seen them they look pretty clean to me. (Yeah I know what you really meant.) What's so bad about a details slab? Some company told you what they thought about the coin, that's what you were paying them to do right? Doesn't make the coin any different. Some people would want a coin toned that way anyway, artificial or not. Some wouldn't want a toned coin period, natural or not. A hunk of plastic with someone's opinion on it doesn't change the <i>coin</i> in any way; it's still the same coin, no more or less desirable or valuable than it was outside of the plastic.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If it's in a hunk of plastic with some company's opinion on it, it's not "bodybagged." If there was anything wrong with the coin it was wrong before someone said so. If it was desirable before it's no less so because one of your deified TPGs said it wasn't. It's just an opinion. And the only people's opinions on a given coin that matter are the owner's, and if you sell it, the buyer's. People put way too much stock in what the TPGs say these days because they have no confidence in their own eyes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1574873, member: 4626"]You get a lot of dirt on details slabs? I've seen them they look pretty clean to me. (Yeah I know what you really meant.) What's so bad about a details slab? Some company told you what they thought about the coin, that's what you were paying them to do right? Doesn't make the coin any different. Some people would want a coin toned that way anyway, artificial or not. Some wouldn't want a toned coin period, natural or not. A hunk of plastic with someone's opinion on it doesn't change the [I]coin[/I] in any way; it's still the same coin, no more or less desirable or valuable than it was outside of the plastic. If it's in a hunk of plastic with some company's opinion on it, it's not "bodybagged." If there was anything wrong with the coin it was wrong before someone said so. If it was desirable before it's no less so because one of your deified TPGs said it wasn't. It's just an opinion. And the only people's opinions on a given coin that matter are the owner's, and if you sell it, the buyer's. People put way too much stock in what the TPGs say these days because they have no confidence in their own eyes.[/QUOTE]
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