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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1685364, member: 112&quot;]It depends on the sales venue, and it depends on the buyer. An educated buyer could care less if the coin is slabbed or not. And if it is slabbed, he will base his price/offer/bid on his own opinion of the coin regardless of what the slab says. He will completely ignore the slab in other words. And he also knows that he will be able to sell that coin, should he choose to do so, with no problem, slabbed or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin being slabbed is of benefit to those who cannot accurately and correctly grade and authenticate the coins themselves. For this reason, this offers the seller a larger potential buying audience. </p><p><br /></p><p>And there is the potential with slabbed coins for an uneducated buyer to over-pay for the coin. So in that way yes, being slabbed could result in a higher price being paid.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the same is also true of raw coins, for it is not uncommon for those who think they know coins to over-pay for a raw coin because they over-grade it when they see it. This happens a whole lot more often than one might think.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course we should be aware of the instances where problem coins are removed form slabs and sold raw, because it is so common for the uneducated or those who think they are educated to over-pay because they don&#039;t recognize the problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>So bottom line, it depends. Sometimes a raw coin will sell for more than if it were slabbed, and sometimes a slabbed coin will sell for more than if it were raw. It all depends on who the potential buyer is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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