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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2883898, member: 112&quot;]No it does not. </p><p><br /></p><p>What it does do is that it makes it easier to sell the coin. And it does this because it increases the number of potential buyers that you might have.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, a lot of potential buyers simply will not buy a coin, any coin, unless it is slabbed. In most of those cases those people don&#039;t know a whole lot about coins so they don&#039;t trust their own judgement when it comes to determining if the coin is worth the asking price or not. BUT - they do trust the TPG and the grade they assign to the coin. So if the coin is slabbed - they will buy it - purely because of the number, the grade, that is assigned by the TPG. These people are what is known as &quot;plastic buyers&quot;. And the coin is only worth X dollars if it is slabbed. If it is not slabbed as far as they are concerned it is worth much less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other buyers, knowledgeable buyers - they don&#039;t care what the TPG says. They completely ignore the TPG grade. And they decide to buy the coin or not, based on their own knowledge and their own ability to grade the coin - and the asking price. To knowledgeable buyers the coin is worth exactly the same amount no matter if it is slabbed or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to plastic buyers, yes a slabbed coin is worth more. To knowledgeable buyers it is not.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is just that simple.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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