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Message:: [QUOTE="sylvester, post: 55413, member: 708"]Alot of people put too much trust in slabbing companies as if they are infallible. Slabbing companies have been fooled and slabbed fake coins before now. There has apparently also been cases of people producing fake slabs too imitating real TPG's. I dislike slabbing generally because i believe it has made the hobby more accessible, "this is a bad thing?" you argue. Well consider this how many collectors can now buy coins without even knowing how to grade? So when a slabbing company accidentally misgrades a coin (and in some areas such as Darkside they have currently proved themselves inept at grading world coins altogether), i've see VF coins slabbed as AUs! And low EF's slabbed as MS63! So then you get a great MS63 coin at strong MS63 price to have someone like me wander along and say, actually old chap it's a decent EF at best. You've gotta learn how to grade whether you buy slabbed coins or not. I think everyone should start on cheap raw, learn how to grade for themselves to a decent rough standard (which will be refined over the years) and then move to slabs if you so wish. So it's best not to put too much faith in slabbing altogether, because when all said and done you're paying them for their opinion, and it's one you could get free off of a decent dealer, or any of us on here.[/QUOTE]