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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3102605, member: 19463&quot;]The group has pretty well covered the way I feel about slabs (No!) but the bottom line as far as I am concerned is that it is just one more step in the ruin of the hobby by people who buy coins but have no interest in them.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t care enough about the coins that you don&#039;t want to learn about them and see them at their finest (not in a plastic box), if all you care about is making money off them selling them to someone even more unaware than you are, if you think what you need to know to appreciate a coin is what is printed on a tiny label then I would really prefer that you go away and collect your shiny baubles that need protection by sealed plastic tombs.&nbsp; Ancient coins have survived a couple thousand years as they are and will do OK without you.&nbsp; I have absolutely no problem with you storing your coins in the way you choose but slabs carry with them added ignorance factor granting people with extra money a licence to pay extra for the right to collect without understanding.&nbsp; I have no more love for people who buy coins and have them held in the vaults of their agents since they have no interest in even seeing the coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Slabbed coins make life easier on people laundering money turning the coins we love into anonymous commodities safe to sell at any flea market or street corner.&nbsp;&nbsp; If it were just a matter of a plastic box, there would be no slab-hate as displayed here.&nbsp; Some of us see it as the imminent end of the hobby we love.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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