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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1430293, member: 26302&quot;]I would dare to argue the opposite. I do not disagree that slabs can lower the risk of new collectors, but I believe its a crutch. Way too many collectors nowadays simply do not know anything about coins, and simply buy slabbed coins and recite as gospel what is on the slab. They could not tell you the difference between an AU50 and an MS 63 if they had to.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, this is extremely dangerous. This crutch will make them much more likely to be sold fake slabs in the future, since they know nothing about coins and could not tell you if the coin in the slab is a fake or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know you cannot force someone to learn about something they don&#039;t want to, but at least in the past collectors would learn to grade and authenticate themselves out of necessity. Now, way too many just trust whatever is printed on the piece of plastic, and don&#039;t even know enough to be able to recognize unique attributes of a coin if its not on the slab. I was talking at the NW show a month ago and someone mentioned he collected SL halves. I told him to keep his eyes out for the 58 doubled die, as I have seen them in slabs not attributed before. He said &quot;doubled what? Wouldn&#039;t something like that have to be on the slab?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Made me a little sad for him, he is not getting his money&#039;s worth out of this hobby IMHO.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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