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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 392862, member: 15062&quot;]Something said in another thread ( Assuming it gets a 65* at NGC and a 65 at PCGS, which company should I send it to? In this case, &quot;should&quot; means &quot;worth the most&quot;. ) makes me wonder about the effects of having a coin graded and slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does slabbing automatically translate into higher value when you&#039;re buying, or selling?</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see that if you&#039;re selling you could use the third party grading as a selling point but, when you&#039;re buying a slabbed coin, do you blindly accept the grader&#039;s grading, or do you do your own grading?&nbsp; It seems to me that slabbing is great protection for a coin, but grading should be up to, and an agreement between, the buyer and seller, not a third party.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should say that I&#039;m not directly involved in collecting any more, ever since my $1500 <u>face</u> value collection was stolen in 1979 but I do buy gold coins for bullion value.&nbsp; I do look at a lot of common date lower grade slabbed gold.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t seen that slabbed coins of the type I look at are selling for any more than&nbsp; plain coins in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, it may seem heretical to most here, but there is almost a religious feeling when you hold 8 or 10 $20 gold pieces in your hand and listen to them jingle together.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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