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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 959643, member: 66&quot;]No, I&#039;m not being sarcastic.&nbsp; Yes I am &quot;The slab guy&quot; and I probably know more about the slabs and companies than most anyone around.&nbsp; I am also vehemently anti-slab and I am completely against the whole concept of the third party grading.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have not and will not support or encourage them.&nbsp; For that reason I will not buy slabbed coins for my collection and I will not even look at slabbed coins when I am looking for coins for my collection.&nbsp; I will not buy a slabbed coin and break it out for my collection.&nbsp; As far as I am concerned a coin in a slab does not exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I DO buy slabs for my slab reference collection.&nbsp; But when I do that then I don&#039;t give a dang what the coin is in the slab.&nbsp; All I care is to acquire an example of the slab as cheaply as possible.&nbsp; (Not always possible.&nbsp; Some slab varieties do not come with cheap coins in them.)&nbsp; And of course the vast majority of the slabs in my reference set are from fourth tier, fly-by-nights, or long extinct companies.&nbsp; I even have pieces in my reference set that have had the coins removed from them.&nbsp; I would rather have the slabs undamaged but sometimes that just isn&#039;t possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Being an anti-slab collector actually has a bit of an advantage as a slab researcher.&nbsp; I&#039;m unbiased, I hate all TPG&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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