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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7807089, member: 118780&quot;]The thing is you <i>are</i> paying a huge premium by sticking to slabs for most common coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, I purchased my very first slabbed coin. I didn&#039;t care that it was slabbed, but the coin is extremely rare so it was either buy the slabbed coin or wait a year or more for another one. The auction house was not Heritage. During my research, I found the last such coin was sold by the same auction house about a year ago. It was unslabbed and in a bit worse condition than mine, but I got mine at 30% less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, that&#039;s a single data point, but it illustrates on a micro level that <i>normally</i> for coins priced over $100, the slab doesn&#039;t make a difference in the price. For collectors like myself, they&#039;re an annoyance. I now have to unslab the coin, and the only reason I bid on it was I had no other choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, if you <i>only</i> want slabbed coins, then you&#039;re stuck with auction houses like Heritage, which - given that the slab doesn&#039;t matter - does receive higher bids than normal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Currently, there&#039;s a relatively rare coin that has seemed to come up on Heritage frequently. I&#039;m aware what it goes for on other auctions like Roma and Nomos, but I haven&#039;t seen it for awhile, so I&#039;ve bid on the Heritage copies. The Heritage ones have been much lower quality specimens than the others I&#039;ve seen, so my bids have been adjusted. So far, every single one has gone for <i>more</i> than I would have paid at Roma and elsewhere. The realized prices just make no sense IMHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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