Slabbed Registry Sets,?

I've got to agree with the ego trip to an extent. Imagine if you had a fantastic coin collection and not allowed to display it, discuss it, brag about it, take pictures of it and send to someone. What if youy spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on it. All items are like that. Notice Jay Leno on TV with his web site for his car collection? Notice how he usually starts his shows with one of his cars or motorcycle? Ever go to a car show? How many of those collectors would have those cars if no one could ever look at them and say WOW what a nice car. Same with train shows, gun shows, knife shows, etc. I've always wondered how many people would collect anything if they could not discuss it at all. I like my coin collection as it is and don't care if it is perfect, it's mine.

Tights.
The last line in your post says it best I agree 100%.

Bruce.

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We should all have that problem !!!!!!!!!!

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I will if I hit the mega-millions tonight.

Unfortunately, slabbed coins is the world we live in, and it is a variation of collecting just the same as only buying raw coins. I think we all agree that everyone has a right to collect whatever they want.

Bottom line in my opinion is that at some point someone will want to sell the collection. Whether it is the collector themselves, or the family members that it gets passed down to. when that time arrives, I have a feeling that only the slabbed sets/coins will get close to their true value. Again, just my opinion.

Very new to collecting and had a question on this subject. What exactly do you mean by registry set? Do you mean a set that is all graded coins. With the highest possible grade for the coin.

YEs Tights I agree there. The grade on the holder is the grade of the coin, no bargaining back and forth on selling. Shouldn't be anyway. I equate owning high grade high dollar slabbed coins to investing.

Tony

To each his own! This proves that there is no right or wrong way of collecting.
In this case, you are talking about apples and oranges, or slab collectors and coin collectors.
I know of people who collect all the slabs without any coins in them at all, and these make a very nice set of slabs, and a lot more sense if you ask me.

I kind of resent the suggestion that, if you aspire to assembling a registry set, that makes you some kind of "not a collector", or that "real" collectors don't have their coins graded, or that it's all just a big ego trip. Last weekend, I registered my Peace dollars and a little over half of them have photos posted. I am glad I did it. The first thing I did was to post the link on this forum. I have almost no conscious interest in the competitive. I think the analogy to "baby pictures" is appropriate. Who would begrudge a new parent from showing off her/his kid?

As it was pointed out above, some people don't have any one to talk to about coins, to show off (again, like baby pictures), etc. I am in this category. I'm proud of my coins and the effort and patience it took me to find them and assemble into a set. I want everyone and anyone who cares to look, see my coins.

Perhaps there's some satisfaction at my set being ranked 35th instead of 36th or whatever, but the main reason is to show off my coins and to symbolize the sense of acheivement (some people call it "pride in acquisition") at having assembled the set.