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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1042473, member: 19065&quot;]<b>Pilkenton: </b>You will likely only decrease the grade of the coins for the purpose of putting them in some less than protective Dansco album, which is bound to harm the &#039;best you can buy&#039;-- be that harm from the album itself over time, from dust, environmental/atmospheric effects, your own handling of the album and those bare coins plus any accidents that may ensue as they again become exposed outside of their protective slabs. What you now consider to be the <i>best you can buy</i>, may quickly become less than that as you currently perceive them to be. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a foolhardy way to handle/spend money when you might well learn more if YOU learn to grade coins rather than buy the grade on the slab, thus trusting a TPGs own subjective grade (no different than a dealers subjective grade OR your own) and only buy the best raw coins you can buy to create such a set. </p><p><br /></p><p>I urge you to learn to grade for yourself and leave the currently slabbed coins alone, preserved for others down the road and generations in the future yet to enter the hobby. Learn to do this and you may well save money enabling you to buy <i>even better coins</i> than what you now think are the best you can buy but which you perceive only come in TPG slabs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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