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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prez2, post: 3721069, member: 93969&quot;]I don&#039;t think I would question your expertise as it seems rather obvious, at least to me. Many folks in the hobby don&#039;t have your expertise. I know I do not. That aside, how would you recommend someone such as myself attain verification on what value the raw coin they possess has? Another internet forum perhaps? Maybe just hold on to it for decades hoping I can attain the knowledge needed to accurately identify my coin(s)? Personally I&#039;d love be be around long enough and I&#039;d love to be able to use my collected knowledge to not need anyone else&#039;s opinion as to what value to place on my coin(s) but again, not everyone can access someone as knowledgeable as yourself and possess enough expertise of their own to make the determinations needed for value to be assigned. Most of my collection is raw and a portion of it would never be valuable enough to warrant grading fees and so some knowledge base is required by me to ever hope to transfer or liquidate my collection to anyone. Sir, I don&#039;t question your credentials, your knowledge nor your expertise on the subject, or any other pertinent characteristic relevant to the hobby for that matter. I only challenge your assertion that highly valuable graded coins are of little consequence. I wish I had your expertise and I enjoy being continually educated on the subject as it diminishes my future need to use such services. Should I ever decide to use such services to justify the cost of particular higher priced coins I possess, I will avail myself of their services to insure a base value. I can also agree that knocking off a chunk of value of a coin in order to guarantee a certain value only makes sense on higher priced coins. I would hope that I have enough knowledge to reasonably price those that otherwise wouldn&#039;t qualify for the added expense of a slab. To me, anything over one hundred dollars value needs some sort of certification someday, but I&#039;m too cheap to pay the fees for many of the coins I possess and so they remain raw. If I added up all the fees I would need to assure values in my collection, I would lose some of that value and I&#039;m not willing to do that. However, many of my coins jump quite a bit and I would like to know what grade they could be assigned with certainty. I&#039;m fine with those not mint state but some mint state coins I&#039;m not that good with. I find mint state coins hard to establish a solid state from say 64 to 65 or 66 and so it&#039;s nice to know I can find out if I decide I need to. I just have to accept the fee and like I said I&#039;m too cheap at this point in my numismatic life I hold many unknowns. The fun of the hobby is discovering value. Anyway, this has drifted way off from my original point. You find little value in grading services and I would politely disagree with that assertion. Chances are I will probably need these services to place a value on some part of my collection and in my experiences thus far, slabs assure value versus raw coins and so it is likely that I will need them before I kick the bucket. I doubt I will absorb enough knowledge to place a guaranteed value on a part of my collection and so I will likely someday need these services. I might need an entity to place a value that is assured one day. Enter the grading company. You don&#039;t need them. Congrats.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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