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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 65065, member: 57463&quot;]Ah, the old can of worms is open again!&nbsp; No, BZ, that is not the reason why NNC or NNT or whatever do not sell for the money of the grade on the holder.&nbsp; It is all a matter of so-called &quot;market acceptance.&quot;&nbsp; I am not defending either side of this.&nbsp; The fact is that four firms are just just &quot;well-known&quot; but that they are &quot;best known.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That familiarity might not be objectively based.&nbsp; It might be faddish or trendy or bought and paid for, but it is reflected in the way coins are bought and sold.&nbsp; And that is real, even if it is not &quot;rational&quot; or &quot;empirical.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Modern foreign coins are slabbed in the USA.&nbsp; American tokens are slabbed.&nbsp; Paper money has recently come into this circle, as well.&nbsp; Even so, there are many areas of numismatics where slabbing is not part of the common culture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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