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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2289087, member: 76194&quot;]Fear not. I was a US slabbed coins snob myself, but this forum converted me into a raw coin fanatic. I now have 9 raw coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>First, there&#039;s just better pricing in buying raw. It seems like whenever someone slabs a coin, all of the sudden they want double what it&#039;s worth and this is due to the $50+ cost of having the coin slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, its fun to make your own labels and catalog system, and you learn way more about your coins that way. Slabbed Ancients don&#039;t have a lot of information on the label because it all doesn&#039;t fit there, so you lose a lot of knowledge about that coin. This is a case of you learn more by doing it yourself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Third, NGC is not perfect, and they don&#039;t guarantee the authenticity of any slabbed ancient. By encasing it, it gives a false presumption that the authenticity of the coin cannot be questioned, when in fact they make no guarantee about the coin. And there is no way to actually weigh the coin, measure it, look at the edges, look at the surface of the coin in detail, or any of the other things one would do to actually determine authenticity because it is encased in a slab.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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