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<p>[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 3795498, member: 92655"]My personal criteria for slabbing a coin. Personally I rather like a raw coin. I connect better with the history that way. However there are several reasons I choose to slab.</p><ul> <li>I seldom sell. However I am old and know my days are numbered. My wife is not a coin person. If I deem a coin of mine is valued more than $300.00 I will have it slabbed so that she finds it easier to sell when I leave this party.</li> <li>Very historic pieces. I recently slabbed a 1794 large cent. I was beautiful but also very obviously environmentally damaged. I felt it right to slab the coin for its own protection so that future generations can enjoy it.</li> <li>Family heirloom. I have a very mundane Franklin half given to me by my mother in 1966 to buy my lunch with at school. It started my coin journey and is a family heirloom to me. It is maybe worth six bucks, but priceless to me and is slabbed.</li> </ul><p>You will note that the marketability of a coin has no merit to me personally when it comes to having a coin slabbed. That is a market only to be pursued by the Pro's that sell coins for their living. The average collector will lose money if he slabs trying to create value in a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 3795498, member: 92655"]My personal criteria for slabbing a coin. Personally I rather like a raw coin. I connect better with the history that way. However there are several reasons I choose to slab. [LIST] [*]I seldom sell. However I am old and know my days are numbered. My wife is not a coin person. If I deem a coin of mine is valued more than $300.00 I will have it slabbed so that she finds it easier to sell when I leave this party. [*]Very historic pieces. I recently slabbed a 1794 large cent. I was beautiful but also very obviously environmentally damaged. I felt it right to slab the coin for its own protection so that future generations can enjoy it. [*]Family heirloom. I have a very mundane Franklin half given to me by my mother in 1966 to buy my lunch with at school. It started my coin journey and is a family heirloom to me. It is maybe worth six bucks, but priceless to me and is slabbed. [/LIST] You will note that the marketability of a coin has no merit to me personally when it comes to having a coin slabbed. That is a market only to be pursued by the Pro's that sell coins for their living. The average collector will lose money if he slabs trying to create value in a coin.[/QUOTE]
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