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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 4622569, member: 78244&quot;]If you want your coins taken seriously when you sell, they have to be slabbed. Most collectors won’t judge you for preferring your coins raw, though there will be the ignorant fools who will assume that your coins are damaged or counterfeit since they are raw. I take solace that they are the ones who blindly trust numbers and will only have a mediocre collection at best.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As much crap as I give them, I actually have come to appreciate their existence with standardizing the market and holding dealers accountable. However, I do not appreciate how much they have come to control the market.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is nothing stopping you from doing that with slabbed coins. If someone&nbsp; doesn’t want to learn anything and just blindly trust slabs, they shouldn’t be collecting coins. They will get screwed over eventually.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>People who have no greater ambition than filling holes or getting registry points apparently like the thrill of the hunt.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I like slabs for only two reasons:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Protecting the coin inside</p><p>2. Much easier to sell at its true value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very few coins in my collection require these two benefits, so very few are slabbed. I hate slabs for the following reasons:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. They distract people from the coin inside</p><p>2. They take up much more space</p><p>3. Harder to evaluate the coins, especially if the coin is scuffed up</p><p>4. The grade on the slab is treated the end-all-be-all, not just an opinion.</p><p>5. They promote gross ignorance of grading and authentication</p><p>6. There is no way to access the coin to remove debris or contaminants on the surfaces</p><p>7. Harder to take pictures of the coin through the plastic[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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