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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JeffsRealm, post: 2519606, member: 81515&quot;]Forgive my ignorance on this. New to collecting. I have been doing some more purchasing of things just to kind of get my feet wet as I sort through older coins in inherited. I have found I kind of like Mint sets, the jury is still out on silver proof sets. However, Mint sets are cheap enough to me, it lets me appreciate some of the newer coins or coins that have been around in my lifetime that I really didn&#039;t notice before. I have got quite a few at a few dollars over face value of the coins. I have also learned quite a bit researching the mint sets and cost. Like 2012, I have not bought yet as the price was really high. Researching they didn&#039;t make that many that year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway I purchased a 2016 SLQ, because why not. Being new, I thought it was a cool coin, not only that my first gold coin. Plus I had the extra cash. Pretty safe coin to buy as it is coming form the US Mint. The coin was bought specifically for me and me alone to have an appreciate. Quite honestly it may be one I treasure for a long time, it is my first gold coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ok I plan to buy the new WLH when it becomes available, which then I look at it and say well I might as well try to get the dime. This way I have a full set. Reading through the forum and so on I will wait a while as I am sure they will go down in price. Too many sold in large quantities to flippers. It not crucial I get it either. Maybe some of the returns will come up for sale from the mint. I did go take a look at them on ebay though which leads to my question. To me, being this is newly released, why not keep it in the original box, original holders. I guess since I have been buying some of the mint sets I appreciate the packaging as well. I think it adds to the coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do understand slabbing and grading but you know they are all pretty much 69 or 70. I can fully see this with circulated coins, especially older coins to help preserve them and grade them. The beautiful Ancients in the Ancient forum, most definitely. But this is a 2016 release that comes in what I consider great packaging. The ones that are slabbed don&#039;t come with the original box or materials either. They are selling those separately. So I guess I just don&#039;t get it. Maybe it is just my other collecting knowledge outside of coins coming into play. Like I have some of the late 70&#039;s star wars figures in original packages. I guess I just appreciate these new 2016 coins in the original packaging over the slabs. I must be missing something here. I do plan on getting the dime maybe later this year or next year. I am in no rush it&#039;s not overly that important to me. I do have other much cheaper coins I would like to have more. However I personally would snub my nose at the slabbed ones vs one in all original packaging as I consider that part of the purchase as well. Sorry if this is a silly question, but I figure I must be missing something. Maybe I am just missing this is a flipper trying to take advantage of people thinking slabbing makes them worth more. I don&#039;t really know, so with all the other great advice I have received here I figured I would ask.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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