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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JeffsRealm, post: 2519731, member: 81515&quot;]Me, nope, I would figure someone doing this could though. To me it wouldn&#039;t matter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am not worried, I am more curious as to me it just doesn&#039;t make sense. To me this is like take buying a new action figure from a toy store, hoping it will be collectible, removing it from the original packaging and sealing it in a cube of plastic. As someone more familiar with those kind of collectibles. Removing from the original packaging makes it worth less. They actually sell plastic containers for the action figure in the original packaging as well. So I am curious as to why this is not so with coins or commemorative of this type in where they do actually come in a well designed original package.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or another way to look at it. Looking at the new Ronald Reagan Coin and Spouse Medal set, I look at it and say very nice, however if I were to buy it I would want it in the original packaging it came from the mint in. Again that&#039;s just me However say for example only 1000 of these were made, would people be breaking them out of the original packaging and slabbing them? If so why? Wouldn&#039;t this hurt the value? I guess why wouldn&#039;t the original packaging make them more valuable as to where people would want to keep them together.</p><p><br /></p><p>This question is truly only out of curiosity as I do not understand why people are slabbing the new mercury dime and the SLQ. I have my SLQ and am quite happy with it. I am just trying to figure out the why people are slabbing them? I mean there must be a reason they are spending this extra money? As I said I can understand slabbing older coins for protection, to stop corrosion, etc. However, these are coins that do not come in special boxes or boxed sets and are hundred and thousands of years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not trying to figure out how to make mine more valuable, I am just trying to understand the why people would slab them vs leave them in original packaging. To me that makes them less valuable as it is destroying the original packaging which personally adds value to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe value and worth are the wrong words to use. How about Collectable. Wouldn&#039;t keeping things like the Mercury dime or the SLQ in the original packaging make them more collectable? Why or Why not?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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