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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 730299, member: 5233&quot;]I specifically said they shouldn&#039;t rely on slabs to learn how to grade in the post you quoted:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But, coin collecting is a hobby full of people who will rip of the uniformed.&nbsp; It is very easy to overgrade a raw coin and sell it to a newer collector.&nbsp; There is a huge finical risk here...it doesn&#039;t exist with slabbed coins.&nbsp; I would never tell someone to buy a coin based on the slab, but buying a slabbed coin isn&#039;t bad either.&nbsp; Slabbed coins remove a very large chunk of the finical risk from buying higher dollar coins which IMHO is something very important for newer collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as learning to grade, I recommend the ANA book to anyone who asks me...and this is a different grading system than those used by the TPGs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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