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<p>[QUOTE="swish513, post: 1219846, member: 22068"]too many people rely on tpgs for the guarantee of authenticity<u><i><b> and </b></i></u>for the grade. if i were to buy a slabbed coin, it would be for the guarantee only, <u><i><b>not</b></i></u> the grade. grading is only opinion. anyone with a brain will tell you that grading is subjective. however, there are many people with much more experience and knowledge in a given series than others. example, indian head cents... i feel comfortable enough to judge the grade of an ihc, and even purchase a raw 1877. however, i don't know enough about the series to know a 1909-s is authentic to buy it unslabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>as far as the market goes, many collectors don't know how to grade, nor have done the research to know how to spot a fake, so they rely on a tpg to do it all for them. this is reflected in the price. people say there isn't/shouldn't be a difference in the price between a raw coin and a slabbed coin, but there is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="swish513, post: 1219846, member: 22068"]too many people rely on tpgs for the guarantee of authenticity[U][I][B] and [/B][/I][/U]for the grade. if i were to buy a slabbed coin, it would be for the guarantee only, [U][I][B]not[/B][/I][/U] the grade. grading is only opinion. anyone with a brain will tell you that grading is subjective. however, there are many people with much more experience and knowledge in a given series than others. example, indian head cents... i feel comfortable enough to judge the grade of an ihc, and even purchase a raw 1877. however, i don't know enough about the series to know a 1909-s is authentic to buy it unslabbed. as far as the market goes, many collectors don't know how to grade, nor have done the research to know how to spot a fake, so they rely on a tpg to do it all for them. this is reflected in the price. people say there isn't/shouldn't be a difference in the price between a raw coin and a slabbed coin, but there is.[/QUOTE]
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