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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 770049, member: 19065&quot;]Might not be what makes sense to you and me, but it might very well make perfect sense to someone out there who wants the coin or could buy it for a decent price (not this coin) but does not like the picture on the label and wishes to change that aspect, as I gathered was part of the bother to the OP, next to the issue of the price of this coin of course. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also it may make sense to those people who don&#039;t care for slabs and regularly crack out their coins for a type-set or an album. Everyone has their own reasons and the price paid isn&#039;t necessarily enough to keep the coin in the slab to that sort of thinking. Choosing to crack a coin out isn&#039;t beyond the realm of reasons for obtaining any coin and doing away with the slab, picture, whatever is unwanted, and if the grade is accurate it doesn&#039;t change the true grade of the coin by removing the slab. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said before if money and time/effort spent to re-holder isn&#039;t an issue, but a slabbed coin is what you &#039;want&#039; minus the picture, then there&#039;s not much stopping someone from that approach as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now the picture on the label doesn&#039;t bother me one way or the other. The grade is great, but a bullion coin slabbed is rather unnecessary at this point. I&#039;ve already stated how much the coin in question is worth to me so there are plenty of reasons why this coin isn&#039;t worth this much attention. I&#039;m more playing devils advocate here not suggesting the approach that ought to be followed. I hoped that was obvious.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps down the road if/when the ASE program has ceased entirely, then bullion ASEs might enjoy some improvement in status, collectibility for the higher grades and then people will finally accept slabbed bullion ASEs along with the collector versions, but it&#039;s a long, long way off in future generations. Now any such premium is not worth paying, despite the grade, especially with millions of these coins produced and huge numbers out there bearing high grades that one could submit themselves for grading/slabbing without the image.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are plenty of ways to protect the coin of this grade without paying a TPG for their services or buying a marketed coin with a special picture that has nothing to do with adding value but everything to do with separating some people with their money. For me there&#039;s no point paying for such &quot;special&quot;&nbsp; labels as I am looking at the coin not the label.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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