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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 13430, member: 112&quot;]Howdy Dave - </p><p><br /></p><p>You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but what might surprise you is that I agree with it. You see - I am a collector of original Mint &amp; Proof sets. Please note that I said collector - not dealer and or investor. You and I likely have much in common as I have been a collector since 1960. I have never been a dealer and will never be one. It&#039;s just not my mind set.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me there is nothing more beautiful than an original set right in the box it was issued in. I will even often pay more for such a set than I will for the coins as individuals. But then I&#039;m not your ordinary collector. Some folks think I&#039;m more than just a bit crazy for paying what I do for such sets. And would an investor be likely to do such things ? I think not.</p><p><br /></p><p>However - I still do agree with everything I said before. It doesn&#039;t matter that I don&#039;t like it being that way. All that matters is that <u>it is</u> that way. And it doesn&#039;t matter that you and I and a thousand others like us don&#039;t like it - for there are 100,000 others who like it that way. And as with anything else - the majority sets the rules.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for never intending to sell off your collection - I was the same for 43 years. I collected US coins, with one exception, for all of that time. But not too long ago - something changed for me. I found that I was much more interested in world coinage. As a result, I have been selling my US collection and using the proceeds towards my world coinage collection. I never thought that day would come - not in a thousand years. But it did. And now that it has - I can tell you from first hand experience that it is <u>much easier</u> to sell a slabbed coin than it is a raw one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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