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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 720341, member: 57463&quot;]<b>They just wanna have fun.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t date much, do you?</p><p><br /></p><p>When I bought my Owl, the dealer encouraged me to hold it, feel it, handle it.&nbsp; Be careful.&nbsp; Don&#039;t drop it.&nbsp; They can be as fragile as glass, as silver crystalizes, but on a sofa or a bed, there&#039;s not much harm possible.&nbsp; With ancients, you <b>do</b> have to handle them to enjoy them. That is just another of your senses to bring to the experience.&nbsp; With modern US you can slab them because they all look alike and they all look like their pictures in the Red Book because you can get them all XF/MS/Blah-Blah.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, I have US Type also, from a VF Large Cent to a Proof Roosie and all the others.&nbsp; Yes, US Type is nice.</p><p>For what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>For ancients, medievals, old stuff in general, if you can&#039;t handle it, you might as well have a picture, like a pin-up, if you want to think of it that way, not quite the real thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will give you a concrete example.&nbsp; I have two coins, one Tibetan, that I believe were owned for a long time by the same person as a good luck piece.&nbsp; They are nominally VF/XF, but when I handled it, my thumb found the slight slidey place where someone else&#039;s thumb ran back and forth, nervously, perhaps, or patiently, perhaps.&nbsp; I felt as if I were in touch with that person.&nbsp; Slabbed, that would be evident.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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