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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 633354, member: 9270&quot;]Slabs vary in significance depending upon what your collecting interest is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Someone who collects IHCs can afford to spend the time researching and learning the specifics of the set.</p><p>Which years tend to have the best strikes.</p><p>What varieties are there.</p><p>They can read and study Snow&#039;s book cover to cover ... several times.</p><p>And any othe respected resources.</p><p>With that info and actually looking at many IHCs these people can pick out the PQ coins whether they are slabbed or not.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b><u>BUT</u></b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Someone whose collecting objective is a type set (like me) doesn&#039;t have the time to do an intensive study of characteristics of an issue, never mind the 80 or 90 different issues they will be collecting.</p><p>We don&#039;t/can&#039;t spend a year studying each issue just to buy one coin.</p><p>Particularly if it&#039;s a hobby and not a profession (dealers).</p><p>These people learn general grading techniques such as breaks in luster.</p><p>These people learn to detect cleaned or altered coins.</p><p>These people learn general strike characteristics of each issue.</p><p>Then they depend on guides such as the ANA Grading Guide.</p><p><b>AND</b></p><p>They depend upon the major TPGs to help them avoid fakes, counterfeits, etc.</p><p>They depend upon the major TPGs to help them grade.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Slabbed coins are of much greater significance to a type collector than an issue specialist.</p><p>I can safely say my collection wouldn&#039;t be anywhere near what it is today without slabs.</p><p>So I&#039;m willing to fork over a bit more money to get a slabbed coin.</p><p>I use my skills to get close and then let the experts take me the rest of the way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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