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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 4177934, member: 77814&quot;]One thing I learned whilst perusing a coin shop was someone came in with a handful of &quot;rare coins they found in pocket change.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The person behind the counter took a quick look and told them that they only bought certified coins.</p><p>So the person who walked in then &quot;understood&quot; and walked out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The odd thing, is if you looked at the display case they were at it was full of certified but mostly raw coins, hundreds of not thousands.&nbsp; And people had come in before *and* after that person selling coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you peruse eBay you can find examples of people sending in &quot;rare pocket change&quot; or &quot;rare Mint state finds&quot; to TPGs for them just to be slabbed &quot;details&quot; (ie, damaged, cleaned, etc) and all that stuff.&nbsp; So on ebay you can pay 10 bucks for a bunch of slabbed coins where someone learned their lesson upon spending a few hundred dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, turning back now, I think coin dealers may use the term &quot;I only buy certified coins&quot; as a method to dispel of people who really haven&#039;t done their homework or have yet to come to the realization that all they have is pocket change.&nbsp; If you think of it, if they don&#039;t buy raw coins then why would they have so many to sell?&nbsp; Plus we can see their point in regards to what has come out of China has made coin collecting/dealing hazardous in relation to the accuracy of the copies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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