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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1430547, member: 24544&quot;]I don&#039;t like to have my coins entombed in plastic. I am with cole, when I buy graded coins they are freed shortly after.&nbsp; I do not pay a premium for slabbed per se, but I do pay a premium for nice/rare coins slabbed or unslabbed. </p><p><br /></p><p>As too there expertise, whatever, grading a series you know well is really not that difficult.&nbsp; It&#039;s not like the graders spend tons of times checking these coins out with a loupe when they grade.&nbsp; They are there to run a business, and the major incentive I see in the business is to slowly inflate grades so as to have a constant stream of people submitting coins in the hopes of them upgrading.&nbsp; I just don&#039;t think that strong of an incentive can be overcome.&nbsp; This says nothing of the actual graders, I don&#039;t doubt their ability and two people can have an honest disagreement about a grade.&nbsp; It&#039;s the business model I don&#039;t like and won&#039;t buy into.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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