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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 61815, member: 3011&quot;]Tom,</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect both ways.&nbsp; Sometimes I collect commemorative slabbed coins and sometimes coins in the mint packaging.&nbsp; I&#039;ll just buy whichever is the better price for what I want.&nbsp; But I don&#039;t collect coins that are neither slabbed nor in the mint packaging.&nbsp; I consider the packaging an offset to the third party grading, with about a PF67/68 equal to having the package (my own rule of thumb).&nbsp; At some point in the distant future, so many commemoratives will have been slabbed or have had the packaging tossed in the trash that I suspect the original sets will become more desirable for some collectors and will go to a premium from where they are now.&nbsp; But it is impossible to prove that theory.&nbsp; In the end, it will come down to having a nice coin, but a very large percentage of the modern commemoratives are in extraordinary condition and I like the presentation in the mint package.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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