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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;USS656, post: 213732, member: 6641&quot;]You are welcome.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think your poll is missing a few options, your answers are too black and white in a world of grey.&nbsp; If you are collecting coins never to sell them, then I see no reason to have them slabbed/graded if they are not graded already.&nbsp; If you want to sell a coin and you think that it will grade high, or that by having been graded, it will affect the value - then yes, have the coin graded.&nbsp; If you want to buy a coin sight unseen, then there is value to the buyer and seller to have it graded professionally.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s not so simple as should a coin be graded or not.&nbsp; I now have one coin that was graded by pcgs.&nbsp; I was confident about what I would get when I bought it on eBay but soon I will break it out of the slab and put it into an air-tite with the rest of the coins for this specific collection.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Questions I would ask are;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1. As a collector - do you have your coins slabbed by a TPG if you have no intention of selling it?</p><p>2. As an investor - do you have your coins slabbed?</p><p>3. As a buyer - do you prefer to buy graded/slabbed coins?&nbsp; If sometimes, when?</p><p>4. As a seller - is there adequate profits realized from selling graded/slabbed vs ungraded coins? If sometimes, when?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My answers are;</p><p>No</p><p>Yes</p><p>Sometimes - Age/Value/Market Type</p><p>My guess is Sometimes - I&#039;ve never sold a coin so I have no idea but my opinion is that if there was no money in it for the sellers, the TPG&#039;s would not exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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