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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 971419, member: 25357&quot;]I&#039;d rather hold a coin in hand any day.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But slabbing has added some valuable positives to the hobby.&nbsp; Knowing a coin has been authenticated and graded by a TPG brings great peace of mind to many buyers.&nbsp; My rule of thumb, is that if a coin that I want for my collection costs over $1000.00,&nbsp; I&#039;ll only buy it slabbed/authenicated/graded by PCGS, NGC or ANACS.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You&#039;ll hear a lot of people bust on ANACS in this forum, in my mind they aren&#039;t that bad, you can ususally get their slabbed coins at a discount from those coins in a PCGS/NGC slab.&nbsp; ANACS&#039; problem seems to be with consistency in grading.&nbsp; But you can mitigate this by following the old adage that you should always &quot;buy the coin, not the slab.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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