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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2825769, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with Deacon Ray in that slabs are not a big threat to the coins I collect.&nbsp; The added cost may be comforting who want to buy coins from sellers who know nothing but open the hobby to a new group of people who don&#039;t want to know more than fits on the label.&nbsp; If these people help keep the hobby legal, great.&nbsp; I rarely see a coin I want in a slab.&nbsp; People who send large quantities in for slabbing have so far avoided coins I find in &#039;can&#039;t live without&#039; status.&nbsp; If they do, I have a vice that works like a hammer with greater finesse.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Like what?&nbsp; My NNC coin is an example of why we need slabs but not jokers whose claim to &#039;expertization&#039; is owning a coffin sealing machine.&nbsp; All who read this and looked at my NNC coin that saw the MS-65 and that&#039;s all are exactly why we need NGC (currently the only slabs I would respect to any degree).&nbsp; If I were to send off a coin of mine with a check for $50 I believe I would be entitled to a second or two of the time of someone who knows more than I do about the coins.&nbsp; Guarantee or not, I&#039;d like to think they would evaluate the coin for authenticity and mark the label with a correct ID.</p><p>&nbsp;<img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/rx6253sl2944-jpg.664704/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The seller from whom I bought my slab had three &#039;like that&#039; but was not selling them as what they were.&nbsp; I doubt he even looked at the coin since all that matters is that label that says MS-65.&nbsp; I was outbid on the other two by people that thought they were nicer than I did or thought that evidence that the slabbers make errors is a collectible specialty in itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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