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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1284725, member: 112&quot;]Well, I&#039;ll tell ya. The values for any coin are no different whether it is slabbed or not - to an educated and experienced collector anyway. And as for the TPG population numbers - they are completely worthless, and meaningless. And for a couple of different reasons. In the first place the TPGs seemingly pay little attention to the pop numbers for world coinage. They seldom update them and there are even examples when the slab cert system doesn&#039;t work for a given coin. Then you have the issue of there being so few collectors of world coinage, and even fewer of that number who bother to have their coins slabbed. So that gives a very misleading impression of just how many of a given coin there may be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, the TPGs serve a useful purpose with world coinage in that they add a certain level of security for less experienced collectors. But the TPGs make far more mistakes with world coinage than they do US coinage. And not just mistakes with attribution or identification, they make far more mistakes with slabbing counterfeits when it comes to world coinage. So unless a collector is knowledgeable enough to identify these mistakes, he still can end up losing. And if he is knowledgeable enough, then he doesn&#039;t need the TPG to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one advantage the collector does have with the slabbed coins is that the TPG will stand behind their guarantee. So if you do buy a slabbed counterfeit, it will not be a total loss. But you will still lose for seldom will you recover what you actually spent on the coin. You will only recover what the TPG says the coin is worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>The solution to this of course is easy, it&#039;s the same solution that exist when buying any coin. Only buy from trusted and respected sellers, whether that be a dealer or a private individual. For if you are unhappy when you get the coin, they will issue a full refund. And if the coin turns out to be a fake, they will issue a full refund.</p><p><br /></p><p>THAT is the secret to assembling a collection, not slabs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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