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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 3972432, member: 26302&quot;]How is my comment an &quot;elitist assumption&quot;? I was asking an honest question. How many people do you think honestly study a coin and agree with the grade versus buy and sell based upon what is on the slab? I do not believe it is 100% on either side. I learned the hobby before slabbing, so would postulate that many more of us truly learned to grade than today, (at least true, third party reference grading and not &quot;gee, I wonder what the TPG might grade this this year&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>I truly have no idea where the seeming hate of your post is coming from. </p><p><br /></p><p>Take a new collector. Does it make you feel better to preach &quot;buy the coin not the slab&quot; and then sleep better at night when he gets suckered into buying an overgraded POS, or buying a fake slab? How many new collectors will be turned off by such things before you may wish to acknowledge it might be of the HOBBY&#039;S CONCERN and we SHOULDN&#039;T just &quot;elitistly&quot; say, &quot;we told you to buy the coin and not the slab&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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