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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beefer518, post: 3018927, member: 87737&quot;]Best advice for you at this point as a newbie, is buy slabbed, until you can get a good grip on being able to confidently grade a coin yourself. </p><p><br /></p><p>The price paid for a coin in or out of a slab *should* be the same - the price is in theory the price of the coin, and not the plastic that comes with it. However, in my experience, sellers will price a raw coin and a graded coin very similarly, but are much more willing to negotiate on the raw coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only difference between a coin in a slab and a raw coin is that someone has &#039;permanently&#039; attached a number grade to the slabbed coin, whereas a raw coin, the grade can (and usually will) change from one person to the next. Does that make the slabbed coin&#039;s grade correct? No, not necessarily, but it has become an accepted assigned grade, and you typically won&#039;t be paying MS63 money for a coin that may be an AU58. IE, if the coin is slabbed as a 63, you&#039;ll pay 63 money, and get a coin accepted to be a 63, sight unseen. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re filling holes in an album, and you&#039;re new, go cheap. Don&#039;t try to fill that album with coins that are MS, as that&#039;s where you&#039;ll probably end up overpaying.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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