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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7780687, member: 118780&quot;]I have yet to own a slabbed coin, but the following give me frustration with them.</p><ol> <li>If NGC doesn&#039;t provide a COA, then why do they charge more for more expensive coins, even going up to a percentage of the value? I mean, given two coins - say a good fine Claudius denarius and a fleur-de-coin Claudius denarius (but both the same obverse and reverse), why does it cost that much more to grade the fleur-de-coin?</li> <li>The slabs themselves are annoying, completely preventing me from displaying the coins the way I want. If I do buy one day, I&#039;m opening it.</li> <li>As I mentioned before, if someone can trick NGC into slabbing a fake coin, that coin can be sold at pretty much any auction house without issues for all time.</li> <li>The gradings just seem ridiculous. I&#039;ve seen a number of double 5/5 coins that would just be a VF in my book. For me, I just want to see the details of the coin to just its condition - but of course the slab makes that difficult.</li> </ol><p>It would be great if there was a service that didn&#039;t slab coins, only gave a judgment on whether they&#039;re genuine (no grading), and provided a COA. That would be worth something, and they could then justify charging a percentage of the coin value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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