more to be subjected to in this slabbing issue than chippers. Why? Because silver strikes are produced more closely to coinage standards than chips are. Strikes have reflective (lustre) and proof-like surfaces....; chips don't. The slabbers will have a field day with their 1-70 grades on coin-like collectibles, such as silver strikes which are struck on hydraulic presses, just like coins are. The slabbers will be deducting points for "weak-strikes" and fingerprints, and hairline scratches, for sure ... not to mention "slight-rubbing" and "toning" due to the loose holders that strikes drop out of the slot machines as issued.

Then there is the issue that coin dealers, who so far have resisted getting into slabbed chips, will want to add these slabbed deep-mirrored proof-like silver strike issues to their slabbed coin inventory because of their look-alike similarity to coins.

Silver Strikers: This is your battle also. Your ox is about to be gored as well. Stand up and do something about it while you still can. Five years, ten years from now will be too late to bemoan; "I wish I had spoken out about this when I had the chance to"..... or, "how come nobody in our (silver strike) hobby (except for Marv Weaver) did anything about this when it first surfaced?"