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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1705819, member: 26302"]But we can grade. You know what you are doing. I will admit I wish I only bought graded coins when I was an idiot, (some say I still am). It would have saved me money.</p><p><br /></p><p>The DANGER, though, to me is that I did learn. If I would have only bought slabbed pieces, would I have ever learned how to grade? Its a fair question, since I do see a lot of people who don't know how to grade even after a decade in the hobby. They feel they don't need to know how because their nursemaid called the TPG will always be there to do it for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus, just how much fun can owning a piece of cold plastic really be? You might as well only own a photograph of a coin, since you will NEVER be able to touch a slabbed coin. That really kills the deal for me. If someone is ok with collecting coins yet never touching a coin, then I guess its ok. I enjoy touching them, feeling them, studying idiosynchracies of them, you know, the old "collecting COINS" kind of thing. I am not too into checking out plastic under a loupe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1705819, member: 26302"]But we can grade. You know what you are doing. I will admit I wish I only bought graded coins when I was an idiot, (some say I still am). It would have saved me money. The DANGER, though, to me is that I did learn. If I would have only bought slabbed pieces, would I have ever learned how to grade? Its a fair question, since I do see a lot of people who don't know how to grade even after a decade in the hobby. They feel they don't need to know how because their nursemaid called the TPG will always be there to do it for them. Plus, just how much fun can owning a piece of cold plastic really be? You might as well only own a photograph of a coin, since you will NEVER be able to touch a slabbed coin. That really kills the deal for me. If someone is ok with collecting coins yet never touching a coin, then I guess its ok. I enjoy touching them, feeling them, studying idiosynchracies of them, you know, the old "collecting COINS" kind of thing. I am not too into checking out plastic under a loupe.[/QUOTE]
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