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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A slab to a coin is like kissing your wife through plexiglass.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2023 Posts |
Slabs offer authentication and more importantly protection against our grubby hands while we're admiring things like texture and weight. That's what low-grade/details pocket pieces are for.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Slabs offer authentication and more importantly protection against our grubby hands while we're admiring things like texture and weight. That's what low-grade/details pocket pieces are for. Sorry but I grossly disagree with your statement . Most all of us who don't have our coins in coffins keep our better coins in flips or 2x2's .where we can remove them at our leisure and handle them by the edges like we were instructed to when we first started collecting . Do you really handle you raw coins with grubby hands ?  |
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Valued Member
United States
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"Slabs offer authentication and more importantly protection against our grubby hands while we're admiring things like texture and weight."
Actually, it's my understanding that PCGS and NGC graders do not use gloves. Therefore after grading, your coin has been handled with grubby hands lol. Whereas, they are usually not handled by mint employees as they drop in the bag. So presuming you remove the coin with gloves and place in a flip, your coin has likely never been handled.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2023 Posts |
The OP noted the tactile sense and the weight of the coin. If the coin is in anything (2x2, flip, slab), you're not going to get a tactile sense, and the weight will still be off by whatever it's in. Granted, slabs weigh more than a 2x2 or a flip, but you can mentally compensate for the weight of the slab -- at least the heavier coins (lighter coins, you can't really appreciate the weight in the first place).
If you really want to experience the tactile sensation of the coin, you're going to have to hold it raw. No gloves, no flips, no nothing. So graders don't use gloves? Once it's in the slab, nothing is going to touch it again until it's cracked.
I stand by my earlier comment.
Edited by Alpha2814
05/05/2019 8:21 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Makes absolutely no difference if you handle an ancient coin with gloved hands or not.
The patina protects the coin.
I don't like them slabbed, either, even when in AS STRUCK condition. (ancient coins don't come in MS grades)
Having said that, I would only handle an unslabbed non patinated American silver or bronze coin in MS 65 or better, WITH gloves. Same would apply with all modern machine made coins that happen to be valuable.
Slabs ARE justified in these sorts of cases, but there are other methods of protection.
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Bedrock of the Community
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The best way to handle any coin is to have clean hands and just hold it by the edges. Gloves do more harm than good. They carry lint and dirt themselves, make it harder to feel what part of the coin you are actually touching, and increase the chance of dropping the coin.
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Valued Member
United States
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We are losing the ability to find under-graded raw coins. At some point pretty much all the good coins will be in holders.
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