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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 3410625, member: 86498&quot;]I do not like slabs (I prefer to call them coffins). I think the record for one surviving in my possession is about 8 hours. I used to work nights got the coin in the morning went to bed woke up and cracked it open before doing anything else. I find that basically they get in the way of me trying to assess the coins merits or lack of them.&nbsp; Some coins are best seen from different angles in fact some I think were designed to be viewed from an angle. This is made more difficult. Even when I have one in my hands I sometimes have to struggle with..... &quot;is the defect on the coin or on the slab&quot; and trying to determine authenticity much more difficult. I don&#039;t care what anyone else said about the authenticity of the coin, I want to make certain on that issue on my own. I think the 5 point scale of strike and surface to be all but useless as it is much too general. I tend not to buy coins in slabs because of the above mentioned issues. I cannot say that I have made any major purchases of coins in slabs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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