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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1862849, member: 5233&quot;]The person who posted this question clearly said the coins are same price and equal otherwise.&nbsp; The point he was making was that one TPG does add something to the coin while the other does not.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you are COMPLETELY wrong to disregard the holder entirely.&nbsp; Now, I do fully and 100% agree that a buyer must know how to properly grade and evaluate a coin they are going to purchase...slabbed or not.&nbsp; That said, certain TPGs (PCGS and NGC) are well known and accepted in this field to be experts.&nbsp; The opinion of these experts does add a certain insurance to a coin and that insurance (*gasp*) does have value.&nbsp; Is the COIN more valuable...no, but <u>as a package the coin with that expert opinion</u> is more value than the coin alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because other TPGs don&#039;t have the same accepted level of expertise in this field...their opinions really don&#039;t have much value (often none at all).&nbsp; Thus, the package of a coin slabbed in a lower tier TPG slab is not worth more than the coin alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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