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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JrCoin, post: 673394, member: 18390&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> okay just to 180 my previous posts I&#039;ll now DEFEND slabbing with some pros...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Authenticity...someone else actually thinks &quot;yup that&#039;s a coin&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Grade...someone else telling you approx. how much that coin is worth</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Plastic...my kid will hopefully have a harder time spending my silver on icecream</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Hey, why don&#039;t we go opposite and encase all our coins in plastic?&nbsp; then you could get MS-60 coins in change everytime you pay for something in cash.&nbsp; Or we could make the coins out of plastic.&nbsp; Oh wait they already have credit cards.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now seriously...If I&#039;m going to pony up and buy that trade dollar I&#039;ve wanted for my type collection, I&#039;m looking at a three to four figure transaction...and there are ALOT of replicas out there.&nbsp; I&#039;d definately want tpg backing on that transaction, either pcgs or ngc.&nbsp; I&#039;m just not familiar enough with the coin to buy raw and get, well, a RAW deal.&nbsp; But I wants it, its my precious, yesh.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Or I could pay $5-10 and get a replica.&nbsp; I don&#039;t do replicas.&nbsp; They do nothing for me.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Slabbing moderns like Statehood quarters to me is a waste of time and money.&nbsp; It&#039;s very speculative and I just don&#039;t see the value.&nbsp; I&#039;ll compare it to baseball cards.&nbsp; Back in the 80&#039;s everyone was doing baseball cards.&nbsp; Almost all the cards from the 80&#039;s have depriciated from the prices they had in their heyday.&nbsp; However if you bought the RIGHT cards from the 50&#039;s you still have a fairly respectable investment.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you are slabbing you are concerned to some degree about value, as you can preserve coins just fine at a cheaper price and in a more attractive manner.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see the value in slabbing modern clads.&nbsp; Maybe silver statehoods because of the relatively low mintage.&nbsp; But then you add the value of the metal used as well.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t see guys rushing out to slab their holographic colorized Obama tribute Kennedy halves, so I&#039;m guessing you know it&#039;s what you slab, not the slab itself.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Alot of my collection is straight from circulation.&nbsp; I&#039;m constantly upgrading coins and working on my grading eye, but they just go in used blue Whitmans I got cheap.&nbsp; Why do I collect from circulation?&nbsp; It&#039;s my lottery, it&#039;s fun and exciting to me, and it doesn&#039;t really cost anything.&nbsp; </p><p>To me it is more about treasure hunting, not hoarding.&nbsp; I&#039;d love to find a lincoln 55 dd, or an indian, or better.&nbsp; I realize that down the line I&#039;m going to have to pay to get the coins I really want, but I&#039;m still figuring out what those are.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just because it&#039;s in a slab doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s worth buying.&nbsp; There are plenty of nice morgans out there, and they will stay nice in their plastic, but they won&#039;t appriciate nearly as fast as you hope.&nbsp; If you&#039;re buying the coin and not the slab, do you really need the slab?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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