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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 593849, member: 4703&quot;]You have to recognize that &quot;Buy the coin, not the holder&quot; is <i>not</i> a warning to be taken literally.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oviously you can&#039;t buy a slabbed coin, without it&#039;s holder.</p><p><br /></p><p>That saying is really shorthand for &quot;Determine the price you are willing to pay based on the actual coin and your own opinion of its grade - not on some knee-jerk reaction that if the holder (whether PCGS or SGS) says &quot;MS69&quot; the coin <i>must</i> be better than every slabbed MS68 on down, and every raw coin that you personally grade at MS68 or less, and it <i>must not</i> be as good as any slabbed MS70 or any raw coin that you personally grade at MS70.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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