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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr. Coin Lover, post: 451181, member: 16060&quot;]I love all the threads here, love all the opinions here, and obviously alot of posters feel very strong about their opinions.&nbsp; Reading the posts on the slab or not to slab their are many views and all of them are okay.&nbsp; If what your doing works for you then continue.&nbsp; I do study up on the coins before I purchase.&nbsp; I learn all the grading points, make sure I can afford all the coins of the set in reasonable grades.&nbsp; Whether a coin is slabbed or not slabbed doesn&#039;t matter to me, it would if I was buying super expensive coins though. To me what it all boils down to is two things: #1 Can I afford the coin I&#039;m looking at.&nbsp; #2.&nbsp; After checking the coin out the one thing that really is the determining factor does if have the eye appeal for me that I would want to own.&nbsp; I have about forty coins I&#039;ve purchased over the last few years I bought only to sell.&nbsp; Several are slabbed, I have sold any of the forty, but I&#039;m sure I&#039;ll get around to it someday.&nbsp; But my point is I have two sets all ASE&#039;s in two albums I bought , all raw.&nbsp; I have six that are in slabs.&nbsp; I learned a very imoortant lesson about slabbed coins.&nbsp; The ASE is MS-69, nice coin. The only trouble is it has a lot of &quot;milk spots&quot;.&nbsp; The pictures weren&#039;t that great, and the seller had no return on slabbed coins.&nbsp; None of my raw ASEs have any milk spots on them.&nbsp; So that put a bad taste in my mouth about slabbed coins.&nbsp; I&#039;ll look at coins and will only buy if it is in my hand or I can see the pictures well enough to make a real evaluation.&nbsp; Some coins I see slabbed I don&#039;t understand why it was slabbed in the first place. If you had a buffalo nickel and it came back F-12, surely the person must have realized it was going to a very low grade prior to submission.&nbsp; Why was it sent in the first place?&nbsp; I do like to buy slabbed coins without a premium for the slab.&nbsp; I also like silver coins that are &quot;blast white&quot;.&nbsp; I certainly understand those that don&#039;t, and since I didin&#039;t have to purchase the coins its okay.&nbsp; I paid for mine and I&#039;ll make them blast white if I feel like it.&nbsp; Although I have to admit I have some Peace Dollars that have a very lovely pastel toning that is attractive.&nbsp; As for what my sons do with my coins after I&#039;m gone, it really won&#039;t matter to me.&nbsp; I hope they will continue on the collection.&nbsp; I read once almost all great coin collections are generational.&nbsp; Maybe they&#039;ll get lucky and sell coins on television, now those are real prices.&nbsp; Remeber state quarters are limited editions.&nbsp; You guys are great, love your opinions!!!!111[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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