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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 21358452, member: 24314&quot;]Jaelus, posted: &quot;There are no shortcuts in this hobby. The most important skill is developing your eye to be able to spot inauthentic and problem coins. Once you can do this, your gut will immediately tell you a coin is no good, even before you can really examine it and articulate why that is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Excellent Post.&nbsp; I widh you would have stopped here.</p><p><br /></p><p>To that end, <font size="6"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">don&#039;t start by collecting [</span></i></b><span style="color: #0000ff">buying ?</span><b><i><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">] slabbed coins.** </span></i></b></font>Thinking that you know the grade and authenticity because you&#039;re buying slabbed coins is a crutch that robs you of being able to authenticate and grade for yourself. <b>Once you don&#039;t care whether the coin is slabbed or not when you are buying, then you are ready to buy slabbed coins. Not before.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><b>** </b>IMO, this is the worst piece of advice [</span><span style="color: #0000ff">buying raw coins in the begining rather than slabs ?</span><span style="color: #b30000">] a highly accomplished numismatist could possibly give to a beginning collector.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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