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<p>[QUOTE="rodeoclown, post: 1607374, member: 34005"]Also, I don't slab my coins and I don't even seek out slabbed coins but here's the only reasons I think coins should be slabbed:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Not sure if it's authentic or not</p><p>2. You want to possibly sell it at a premium at a later time</p><p>3. The value of the coin exceeds at minimum twice the amount it costs to get it slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Say you have a coin worth $35 in it's current grade. If you spent $30 to get it graded and it came out exactly the grade you expected, getting the coin slabbed at $30 isn't going to make the coin worth $65 now, it's still worth around the $35 mark. Some collectors will pay a premium for slabbed coins with a 3rd party opinion slapped on it and then there's collectors like me that won't pay one cent higher because it's in a fancy slab with such opinion slapped on it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rodeoclown, post: 1607374, member: 34005"]Also, I don't slab my coins and I don't even seek out slabbed coins but here's the only reasons I think coins should be slabbed: 1. Not sure if it's authentic or not 2. You want to possibly sell it at a premium at a later time 3. The value of the coin exceeds at minimum twice the amount it costs to get it slabbed. Say you have a coin worth $35 in it's current grade. If you spent $30 to get it graded and it came out exactly the grade you expected, getting the coin slabbed at $30 isn't going to make the coin worth $65 now, it's still worth around the $35 mark. Some collectors will pay a premium for slabbed coins with a 3rd party opinion slapped on it and then there's collectors like me that won't pay one cent higher because it's in a fancy slab with such opinion slapped on it. ;)[/QUOTE]
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