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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prime Mover, post: 1860135, member: 38783&quot;]Sometimes you&#039;re looking for a slabbed coin in a specific grade to complete a registry set.&nbsp; Personally, I&#039;m looking for some MS-63 Ikes to complete one of mine, and am finding it hard to find them, since those are rarer in that grade.&nbsp; If that was a coin I was looking for, I&#039;d happily shell out the $25 for it, even though the coin itself would only be worth $7 at melt.&nbsp; In that case, there&#039;s a perfect reason to slab something that you wouldn&#039;t normally consider to slab it, even though it&#039;s a prohibitive cost to slab.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And, you may not know what is going on behind the scenes with the consignor.&nbsp; Maybe he&#039;s liquidating an estate and just sending all the coins through at once, or is a repeat consignor constantly feeding coins through based on a contract.&nbsp; Most times you&#039;ll see them get a large bulk deal for the consignment as a whole, so they slab the low grade ones alongside the higher grade ones.&nbsp; This is no different than a dealer submitting a couple hundred coins to get the bulk discount at a TPG.&nbsp; They make their profit on the higher grade ones, and the rest are just fodder that may make a few extra bucks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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