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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2780000, member: 10461"] <ol> <li>Sure, if you're buying current issues, you'll be paying high markups for proof coins sometimes.  But after they're a bit older and have had time for the market to settle, maybe not always so much.</li> <li>One learns to live with plastic.  True, it does remove the element of touch, and I certainly understand people wanting to touch their coins, but of course handling is not good for many of the coins - certainly not proofs, anyway.  Coins that have had a long time to build up a "skin" of patina are a different matter.</li> <li>Not all proof coins are expensive.</li> </ol>Think about it this way - a proof coin is how a coin is supposed to look, in its most perfect incarnation. It's a different creature from a business strike that was struck to circulate. Think of it like a soldier.  When he's on parade, he's in his best, immaculate dress uniform.  When he's on the battlefield, he's wearing dirty fatigues.  See?  Proofs are the dress uniform.  Business strikes are the battle fatigues.  Both have their place. Some prefer business strikes, and circulated coins.  Some like pristine proofs. Me, I like both.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> As to the plastic holder thing, I do most of my examination of my coins on the computer screen, while the coins themselves are locked in a bank box.  That's quite different from the way I collected, 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.  But I don't think there is any "right" or "wrong" answer there.  To each his own, and let everyone collect the way he or she gets the most happiness from it.[/QUOTE]

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