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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 5452353, member: 74968&quot;]95% of my coins are raw. I like it that way because I can handle the coins as often as I want to. Coins are tactile items. I like holding one thinking about who had handled it before. The bulk of my collection are housed in Abafil cases. I love the cases for their beauty durability and their elegant design. They are both practical and beautiful. However, I have several coins that are slabbed and they will stay that way for now. i have cracked out a number of coins but did not do so with these. The reason is that these coins come with a provenance and I want to preserve that. The fact that these are slabbed makes it very easy to add tickets and tags to an envelope and to attach this with a rubber band. I very much like having the ephemera with the coins. Also on a few tickets the provenance is actually noted. This makes tracing the ownership much easier. I think that this will become important in the next decade or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, if you like Abafil and slabs, they have come up with a neat little elegant solution.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1237377[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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