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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1847985, member: 112&quot;]Pretty much all coins sell for more in the next highest grade, some of them for many multiples of the lower grade. That has nothing to do with the coin being worth more slabbed than it is raw - it has to do with the grade of a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you have to realize is that knowledgeable people completely ignore whatever a slab says in regard to grade - regardless of whose slab it is. They look at the coin and only the coin and they assign their own grade, and then determine how much the coin is worth based on that. This method is known as - buy the coin, not the slab. And that is arguably the most often repeated advice you will ever get from people who know coins. It is also the best advice you will ever get.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, yeah, there are people out there who think/believe that a slabbed coin is worth more than the same coin raw. But that does not mean that they are right. There are people out there who still think the earth is flat, and others who think that the earth is only 6,000 years old, but that does not mean they are right either.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are plastic buyers and there are coin buyers. And sadly, the plastic buyers greatly outnumber the coin buyers. They are also many of the ones who think that a coin slabbed is worth more than the same coin raw. And there are others who are simply misinformed who think the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>But let me ask you something. If a coin is worth more slabbed than it is raw, then why does the Grey Sheet, which is basically the coin dealer&#039;s bible, say that a given coin is worth the same amount raw or slabbed ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Knowledgeable people will pay no more for a coin slabbed than they would if it were raw. That is reality, a fact, not perception. The people who are suffering from perception, a mistaken perception, are those who think otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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