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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1927940, member: 4626&quot;]I buy plenty of raw coins and only once did I ever end up with one that was counterfeit (I had reasoned that nobody would bother to fake a coin that would only have been worth $15 if real lol... but apparently not all counterfeiters aim high.).&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t ever buy a coin of significant value from someone I didn&#039;t know or at least had a decent verifiable reputation in any case; not even if it <i>WAS</i> certified (I recently decided I preferred to buy a raw gold sovereign from a seller with a firmly established reputation than a graded one from someone who didn&#039;t even have a double digit feedback score).</p><p><br /></p><p>I do agree though in coveat emptor (may the buyer beware) and you shouldn&#039;t buy <i>ANYTHING</i>, coins or otherwise, if you don&#039;t know enough about what you&#039;re buying to know whether or not it&#039;s worth what you&#039;re paying.&nbsp; Always educate yourself about what you&#039;re buying <i>before</i> you hand over any money.&nbsp; Don&#039;t buy it first then ask people if you got a good deal <i>after</i> the fact; it&#039;s too late then!</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. To be fair it&#039;s not that I have anything against slabbed coins in general; just that I don&#039;t like paying extra for a coin just because it&#039;s slabbed.&nbsp; When I bought a trade dollar though I wanted to get a slabbed one because they&#039;re faked so often; I was more concerned about the authenticity than the grading opinion of the TPG.&nbsp; As far as I&#039;m concerned the opinion of a TPG, no matter how reputable, adds nothing to the value of the <i>coin</i> and shouldn&#039;t be paid for by the buyer before the fact.&nbsp; Grading services are meant more for sellers than buyers, IMO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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