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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2299788, member: 1892&quot;]All a slab should be is a way to allow you to buy a coin you can trust without necessarily seeing it first, and a grade doesn&#039;t exist until you believe it exists. All this is merely a way of getting coins into your hands which are more likely to be the one you expected. Whether there&#039;s a slab or not, whether the grade is &quot;right&quot; or not, none of it&#039;s real until it&#039;s in your hands and you agree with it, because numismatics is about <b>your</b> opinion of your coins, not theirs. A slab is only a more efficient delivery system to me, because I feel it my responsibility to be able to accurately evaluate what&#039;s in it, or I wouldn&#039;t be buying the darn thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>A strong case can be made that, in this day and age of high-resolution digital imagery, TPG&#039;s are far less important than they used to be. I&#039;m unafraid to sell raw coins based on my own images. &quot;Sight-unseen&quot; is not the governing term it once was in numismatics, when dealers sold to the public from lists. In fact, it&#039;s a vanishing breed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming, of course, that we never forget our first mission with this stuff is to be able to stand on our own two feet. And that&#039;s why I like to view slabs as if they didn&#039;t exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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