I believe the OPs intention backfired assuming he was looking for push back.
I break them open too, only if I think one will grade. And I pay a lot more than .91 cents per set so I don't know how he's not losing money.
@JBK said: I'm assuming that they are building rolls. The way they are handling the coins, though, I'd expect the rolls to be subpar. For me, proof rolls have always been a questionable way to package supposedly collectable coins, though, since when you drop them into the tube you inevitably get an edge hitting the face of the coin below.
I don't know how the OP does it but you can stack the coins and slide them into the tube in a group if you want to limit opportunities for contact marks.
Proof coins are far too fragile for rolling into a tube. I use saflips and virtually eliminate the risk of contact marks. A really nice proof goes into a saflip that I seal. The seal I get with my sealer is virtually waterproof.
That would be the best way to protect them but I'm afraid that based on many of the listings I see for rolls of proofs on eBay, that's not the way you're likely to get them from a lot of sellers.
How and why are you preventing people from owning those things? Buying a bunch of something (hoarding) doesn't prevent anything. It just reduces the quantity available to the market. With hundreds of thousands of those sets in existence, Buying, hoarding, or destroying even 1% of the population will have little effect.
My thoughts are collectors buy extra coins not to hoard the coins, but to save them for the Heirs (Grandkids to have something to collect and to give them a start in the hobby). I could be wrong, but in my case, this is my intention. I collect coins to pass them on and to save coins for historical reasons too. You may not agree with me, but this is my reason for collecting coins.
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My thoughts are collectors buy extra coins not to hoard the coins, but to save them for the Heirs (Grandkids to have something to collect and to give them a start in the hobby). I could be wrong, but in my case, this is my intention. I collect coins to pass them on and to save coins for historical reasons too. You may not agree with me, but this is my reason for collecting coins.
Im with you all the way!
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I believe the OPs intention backfired assuming he was looking for push back.
I break them open too, only if I think one will grade. And I pay a lot more than .91 cents per set so I don't know how he's not losing money.
That would be the best way to protect them but I'm afraid that based on many of the listings I see for rolls of proofs on eBay, that's not the way you're likely to get them from a lot of sellers.
How and why are you preventing people from owning those things? Buying a bunch of something (hoarding) doesn't prevent anything. It just reduces the quantity available to the market. With hundreds of thousands of those sets in existence, Buying, hoarding, or destroying even 1% of the population will have little effect.
My thoughts are collectors buy extra coins not to hoard the coins, but to save them for the Heirs (Grandkids to have something to collect and to give them a start in the hobby). I could be wrong, but in my case, this is my intention. I collect coins to pass them on and to save coins for historical reasons too. You may not agree with me, but this is my reason for collecting coins.
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P> @JWP said:
Im with you all the way!
Student of numismatics and collector of Morgan dollars
Successful BST transactions with: Namvet Justindan Mattniss RWW olah_in_MA
Dantheman984 Toyz4geo SurfinxHI greencopper RWW bigjpst bretsan MWallace logger7 JWP BruceS bigjpst
JWP PROMETHIUS88