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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NotSure, post: 817175, member: 20034&quot;]It&#039;s the cost of playing the game...like the lottery....if you don&#039;t play, you can&#039;t win. When it comes to coins, SOMETIMES you NEED them slabbed, regardless of what you know or don&#039;t. The stigma that is attached to raw coins is harsh, but it does have a valid point...most of the time raw coins aren&#039;t in a slab because they can&#039;t get into one. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Specialty collectors...such as VAMMERS, need them properly attributed. Myself, I need some of what I collect graded, and once you NEED them graded, WHO grades them is just as important. In my case, Washington Type B&#039;s. If I can rip a &#039;56 Type B in a SGS MS70 slab for $50 (I brought this up in the SGS thread), and pay $50 for PCGS to attribute it MS65, I can turn a coin that I am into for $100, into a $300 coin. That math works for me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I COULD pay less and have ANACS slab it, but it ISN&#039;T going to be a $300 coin. It&#039;s common knowledge PCGS brings the top prices, so, sure, they charge more. But, in the long run, you are better off. I don&#039;t &#039;invest&#039; in coins, I collect them, but there WILL come a time that they will NEED to be sold, for one reason or another, and I want the maximum return.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When it comes to non-specific coins (coins that don&#039;t need special attributions), as long as it&#039;s graded by one of the top 3, your coins are valued properly, more or less (here again, WHO graded them can dictate what your coins will eventually fetch) . When it comes time to re-sell (you can&#039;t take &#039;em with you), your coins will realize their maximum if they are slabbed by a top tier TPG, with proper instruction as to how/where to dispose of them, as most coins fall into the hands of non-collecting family members, who could get burned badly.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sure, it&#039;s costly, but it&#039;s better to have them slabbed then having your coins bring fractions of what they are actually worth. We ALL know a raw MS63 coin is going to be an AU slider coin to a dealer. In that TPG plastic, there are no arguments. The dealer buying that raw MS63 for AU money, he WILL have it graded MS63 (why?...to maximize the coins value). Even for those that can grade properly and feel comfortable buying raw coins, there WILL come that time there will be a need for them to be graded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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