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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 150945, member: 66&quot;]Mark as a rookie, I would recommend that if you are going to buy&nbsp; coins that are KNOWN to be commonly counterfeited then I could understand why you would want to buy a slabbed one.&nbsp; But if you do buy one slabbed by one of the top services,&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Why?&nbsp; Because although NONE of them actually have a written guarantee of authenticity the top three services have ALWAYS stood behind their product and bought back any coin that made it into one of their slabs that was later found to be a counterfeit.&nbsp; (Many people can&#039;t understand the difference between volintarily standing behind their product and a written guarantee that MANDATES that they do so.&nbsp; If they have a guarantee and fail to buy them back they are in breach of contract.&nbsp; Without the guarantee they can chose to buy them back or not anytime they choose.&nbsp; And can apply it to so and not others.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As you learn more you should become less and less dependant on the services opinions as you are able to rely&nbsp; more on your own.&nbsp; There are also some key coins that are not commonly faked which you could probably safely buy unslabbed and some non-keys that should almost always be bought slabbed unless you are skilled enough to judge them yourself.&nbsp; There are so many fake type II gold dollars out there that it is best to get them slabbed, and the same for three dollar gold pieces.&nbsp; The 09-SVDB and 16-D dime should always be bought slabbed because there are SO MANY fakes out there (At one time there were more fake coins out there of these two issues that the mint ever struck.)&nbsp; But since each of these come from just four die pairs it is possible to become familiar with the die features of the genuine coins and then once again slabbing is not really needed.&nbsp; Except for the fact that since the vast majority of the people CAN&quot;T tell a real one from a fake no one is willing to buy one for any kind of decent money unless it is slabbed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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