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I keep my rifles in protective cases when traveling, but if someone just threw them on the counter

and they bounced a couple of times before coming to a stop I would be aggravated. So why do people continue to do this with expensive coins in holders. I saw this at the FUN show on Saturday. Are the people that do this the same ones that open their car door into yours and walk away like nothing happened? What gets me is that it's usually the dealer selling the coin that tosses it. If you were in a jewelry store and the sales clerk tossed a diamond ring on the counter would that be acceptable? I dont know, maybe some people just dont have the same values.

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  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,777 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They are just widgets to some guys and they like to act like MR image

    Just a MACHO thing and he is trying to impress his buddies image

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  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489
    I don't think your rifle case would secure your weapon the same as a slab does a coin. If my diamond ring I was purchasing
    came in a sealed slad like my coins I would probably think this person is an idiot. But it wouldn't stop me from buying the ring
    if my wife wanted it..The ring is protected from the morons. That is the reason rare coins are in slabs. To preserve and protect

    That being said I agree with the car door theory...
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,907 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Next time a dealer does this, throw the coin back at him. image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Next time a dealer does this, throw the coin back at him. image >>



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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Firearms have many small, and sometimes delicate, moving mechanical parts inside. A jarring hit by dropping a cased rifle on a counter could conceivable damage it.

    There are no moving parts or mechanisms on a coin to be damaged. Coins are much more securely held in slabs than a firearm in a case.

    It comes down to your personal pet peeves but dropping a slabed coin on the counter would not bother me in the least. Out of respect of course I'd never do that to someone else's coin but if someone did it to mine I'd pay it no thought. Dropping it on a hard surface floor or chucking it across the room...now that's a different story.

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