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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wxcoin, post: 4623502, member: 74624&quot;]I collect both raw (for albums) and slabbed coins.&nbsp; Unfortunately, it has become more difficult to find high grade semi key and key raw coins to fill some album slots; my guess is most of them have been slabbed by now.&nbsp; Those that do come up online are most likely details coins.&nbsp; Do I care?&nbsp; Yes and no.&nbsp; I&#039;ve filled in some early series slots on my type album with details coins (cracked them out of slabs).&nbsp; I won&#039;t crack out higher value straight graded coins from their slabs; selling them raw down the road will most likely result in getting less in return.&nbsp; However, I will no longer take a chance spending a lot of money on a raw semi key or key raw coin from an online seller.&nbsp; My experience has been that most have been cleaned.&nbsp; Pictures can be deceiving; some pictures are of high quality but probably manipulated and some are of very poor quality.&nbsp; I cringe when I see raw coins in online auctions getting bids that are as high or higher than a similar coin already in a slab, graded by one the major TPGs.&nbsp; One particular eBay seller (I won&#039;t mention here) continually sells raw coins in their auctions at ridiculously high prices and have done so for years.&nbsp; Their pictures are very deceiving.&nbsp; I learned my lesson after buying a few mint state three cent nickels from them that ended up being details (cleaned) coins.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t tell that they were cleaned from the pictures they used (pictures can be enhanced/manipulated).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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