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How Many Colonial Collectors are There?
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John:
I tend to agree with what you were hinting around at. As one of
the greedy dealers who sells colonials in slabs as well as those "in
the raw", I have seen first hand several new colonial collectors who
made their tentative first colonial purchases with slabbed coins.
When they felt more comfortable with what colonials should "look
like", they went on to buy both raw and slabbed coins. I'm pretty
sure that at least some of those now avid collectors wouldn't be
involved if it weren't for slabs. Lest we all forget, this is an
area of numismatics that is very intimidating to newcomers.
I know this will be an EXTREMELY unpopular opinion in this chat
room, but I think that slabs perform a valuable service to beginning
collectors. Can you get burned? Sure. But you do have assurance of
not buying a fake as the real thing (not that this ever happened to
beginning colonial collectors in the pre-slab era!), and you do have
some assurance of not buying a horribly corroded but XF coin at XF
money (same comment).
Have I seen some real crap in slabs? Yes; we all have. But let
us recall that we were not living in the Garden of Colonial Eden
before the dreaded and evil slabs came upon the scene.
I think the net influence of slabs has been positive for our
colonial hobby.
OK, let those slings and arrows fly! I can take it.
Sinerely,
Dave Wnuck
PS: By the way, I am speaking of PCGS (and NGC, I guess; also ANACS
for Fugios) slabs here. Don't get me started on SEGS, ACG and the
rest.
PPS: I guesstimate the number of hard-core colonial collectors at
about 200; add in the dabblers and you get to 800 or so.
--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "colonialcoinunion
<jagre@a...>" <jagre@a...> wrote:
> Looking for a rough guess - and not just the hard core guys, but
> including the dabblers and the toe-in-the-water crowd.
>
> And the 2nd part of the question - does the serious hard core group
> want to see new people coming into the 'field'? My sense is that
> there is not a great deal of enthusiasm for the novice or newby
> introduced to the field via, perhaps, slabbed items.
>
> JA - 2003-02-10
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