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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 463068, member: 15309&quot;]Don&#039;t take this the wrong way, but you are completely wrong.&nbsp; Your aversion to plastic seems to have warped your mind.&nbsp; Technically, I will not disagree with the phrase &quot;eventually have ugly black silver coins behind plastic&quot; if you live to be 2000 years old.&nbsp;&nbsp; Stored properly, slabbed coins will not continue to tone at a rate that any of us can see.&nbsp; Certainly not in our lifetimes.&nbsp; There are Morgan Dollars that sat in bags for decades and toned with rainbow brilliance because they rested against the canvas.&nbsp; The ones that did not touch the bag look essentially the same as they did the day they left the mint although they certainly have a very thin layer of silver sulfide on the surface.&nbsp; Those Morgan Dollars did not have any protection other than that they were left undisturbed for years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The levels of hydrogen sulfide gas in normal atmosphere are not high enough to cause horrible toning to slabbed properly stored coins.&nbsp; You seem to think that plastic is ruining the hobby.&nbsp; I will tell you this, if you buy $1,000+ coins, you will sleep very well knowing that the coin is market graded, authenticated, and encapsulated for it&#039;s protection.&nbsp; I have long said that coins under $100 don&#039;t benefit from slabbing, but I would not even consider buying a $1,000 raw coin.&nbsp; The saying is &quot;buy the coin not the plastic.&quot;&nbsp; The saying should be &quot;buy the coin not the plastic, but don&#039;t ignore the plastic.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Paul[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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