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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1381877, member: 24544&quot;]I think it largely depends on what you collect.&nbsp; If you are collecting ms morgans buy them slabbed as they are plentiful and fungible.&nbsp; If you collect something like early copper than raw is almost the whole game.&nbsp; Basically, I think if you are collecting common stuff with a lot of supply then slabbed is a decent way to go.&nbsp; When you get into series with less available material, and material with more variance in the quality of the coins, than then TPGers inherently have a more difficult job of grading because the coins are no longer fungible.</p><p><br /></p><p>To your point about a seller can&#039;t overgrade, while technically true I don&#039;t think it&#039;s accurate.&nbsp; In my experience with early copper the grades on the slabs can be horribly overgraded.&nbsp; Check the Reiver collection sold by HA in 2006 for an example of an entire collection where almost every coin would grade lower than currently graded if they were resubmitted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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