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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheMont, post: 3226780, member: 80121&quot;]We, the Albuquerque Coin Club, have, to the best of my knowledge, the only Coin Shows in New Mexico. We have a show in the Spring and in the Fall (our Fall show is next weekend) with 85 dealer tables, I&#039;d say most, if not all, have at least some slabbed coins for sale, the only exceptions are the 3 or 4 ancient dealers. I get coins slabbed if I have a question concerning their authenticity. As I posted before, I sent in to NGC two Lincoln Cents, a 1955 and 1972 DDO. The 1955, I had for a long time, the 1972 I had just obtained. To my great surprise, the 1955 came back as counterfeit, the 1972 as real. I called NGC concerning the 1955, I&#039;m a fairly experienced collector and three dealer friends also passed it as being real. NGC said that that particular coin although counterfeit, was die cast and they knew the die markers to look for. They told me two, but said they really didn&#039;t want to tell all of them so that the conterfeiter would not correct them. I told them I had the coin from when I was&nbsp; a kid back in the 60s. They told me to send it back to them, but it came back a 2nd time as counterfeit. So getting coins slabbed, at least high end, is certainly worth the effort. Modern coins, unless for a registry set, are not worth getting graded. If you want to collect say a set of complete Silver Eagles graded, it&#039;s much less expensive to buy them already graded from one of the online companies. They get bulk rates for grading so you pay basically raw prices, from a top tier grading company, for a coin that is slightly above the raw price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sent from my Samsung Smartphone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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