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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1294672, member: 26302&quot;]Funny you mention the lack of fun brought about from slabbing baseball cards. I collected them when I was younger and still have about a trunk full from the early-late 70&#039;s, some boxes from earlier. I looked into getting back into the in the 90&#039;s and it simply did not look fun at all. Card collecting feels like it was ruined by the dads getting involved, making everything so &quot;serious&quot; and taking away any possible fun.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I equate a lot of recent antics of TPG to the same methodology, &quot;First Strike&quot; designations. REALLY? Telling kids they cannot ever touch a coin because &quot;it will ruin its investment value&quot;. Same crud that ruined any fun in baseball cards to me. With prices, slabbing so no human can ever touch it, and the whole, &quot;have to keep it perfect&quot; mentality, just how much fun could modern US coin collecting be for kids? Every day it looks a little more like what you describe about baseball cards sir, at least to me. Growing up I learned to not smear your fingerprint across the coin, but at least I could hold the edges in my hand, and connect to the history of the coin, without having to look through a plastic window like its in a museum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me? I give old Roman and Chinese coins away to kids, tell them to feel them, handle them, get to know what items like this were like. Without touching the items, I simply do not see kids being very interested in anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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