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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2404436, member: 1892&quot;]I&#039;ll bet that you occasionally get <b>really</b> nice raw stuff which languishes in inventory because there aren&#039;t enough people left out there who can evaluate it accurately and pay you what it&#039;s worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s my belief that the enormous reach of the Internet puts those of us with enough ambition to leverage it into a position to wrest some of that control back from the TPG&#039;s, and empower individual collectors to make those decisions on their own. I do not deny the good that the TPG system has done the hobby over the last few decades (nor the ongoing need for them as authenticators), but in a world where information can be disseminated at light speed, and anyone with a couple hundred bucks and some elbow grease can create professional-level, gradable coin images, the slab is no longer as necessary as it once was. Numismatics no longer exists in the near-vacuum it once did.</p><p><br /></p><p>There will always be those who want to be spoon-fed. But there will also always be those who prefer doing for themselves, and we now live in an environment where they can readily acquire the skills they need if we provide them the necessary teaching. I would like to believe that - and am working towards the day when - raw coins can make a comeback.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I <b>wholeheartedly</b> disagree with that level of pessimism. Don&#039;t just fight the current; help me build the breakwater to divert it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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