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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 4623819, member: 9270&quot;]I&#039;m about as close to collecting only coins in slabs as is reasonable.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. In part that&#039;s because my #1 collection is a type set and there&#039;s no way I can become proficient in detecting counterfeits of all the US issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Experience has also shown me I cannot always detect Details (particularly cleaned) coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My only exception to slabbed coins is my World Birth Year set.</p><p>Most of them are raw and I KNOW many don&#039;t have original surfaces.</p><p>But that&#039;s okay since they generally are inexpensive.</p><p>Any expensive ones I buy slabbed.</p><p>For example my 1941 Great Britain Maundy set is slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sliding into EAC coins (early US Copper) which sort of has me on the fence.</p><p>Many (most?) EAC collectors do not deal with slabbed coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve deal with Tom Reynolds; he doesn&#039;t.</p><p>I&#039;ve looked a Butternut; he doesn&#039;t.</p><p>Chris McCawley is beginning to, especially with upper end material.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t see myself changing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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