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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6490001, member: 19463"]It is true that slabs brought new collectors to the hobby but there is one slight side effect/problem. When a $50 coin is put in a $50 slab and sold for $150 it still remains a $50 coin in the eyes of those collectors who were in the hobby before slabs or who have learned their hobby skills 'old school'. That means that the coin in a slab that can be removed from the slab will probably only appeal to people who will not remove it from the slab. Someone will have to 'eat' the cost of that slab. I do not pay extra for slabbed coins so you have a choice if you want to sell to me. You will sell it for what the coin raw is worth to me or you will convince me that I have to pay more because I will not find another like that coin and I should pay more to cover your not knowing what you had. Usually that means you will have only people who are like you and like slabs as customers for common coins but may sell coins in slabs for a high price if the coin was special enough to cover its own slab fee. Two coins below are not slabbed. If they were, I suspect one would remain that way while the other would be broken out by the buyer who would not be impressed by the plastic/label. The other is a common coin which I predict will stay in the slab and sold to someone like the PCP who will take comfort in the label and not the coin. Which is which? I wonder how many of each of these exist in slabs. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1259258[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1259259[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6490001, member: 19463"]It is true that slabs brought new collectors to the hobby but there is one slight side effect/problem. When a $50 coin is put in a $50 slab and sold for $150 it still remains a $50 coin in the eyes of those collectors who were in the hobby before slabs or who have learned their hobby skills 'old school'. That means that the coin in a slab that can be removed from the slab will probably only appeal to people who will not remove it from the slab. Someone will have to 'eat' the cost of that slab. I do not pay extra for slabbed coins so you have a choice if you want to sell to me. You will sell it for what the coin raw is worth to me or you will convince me that I have to pay more because I will not find another like that coin and I should pay more to cover your not knowing what you had. Usually that means you will have only people who are like you and like slabs as customers for common coins but may sell coins in slabs for a high price if the coin was special enough to cover its own slab fee. Two coins below are not slabbed. If they were, I suspect one would remain that way while the other would be broken out by the buyer who would not be impressed by the plastic/label. The other is a common coin which I predict will stay in the slab and sold to someone like the PCP who will take comfort in the label and not the coin. Which is which? I wonder how many of each of these exist in slabs. [ATTACH=full]1259258[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1259259[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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