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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WoodyWW, post: 1226457, member: 26001&quot;]&quot;just buy them slabbed already and let someone else do the bleeding.&quot;-- It&#039;s funny b/c on some other coin forums/sites, newbies with sort of expensive raw coins are often urged to do the &quot;collector&#039;s club&quot; thing with PCGS or NGC. And it&#039;s presumed that the TPG will grade their coins &quot;fairly&quot;, i.e. won&#039;t bb any coins that are genuine, undergrade any coins, label coins as having &quot;altered surfaces&quot; that are not, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I won&#039;t send any submissions to PCGS ever again. I don&#039;t have experience with NGC but after reading all this I think I&#039;ll pass. What I do as a buyer tho is to buy coins over $200 or so only in NGC or PCGS slabs (possibly ANACS). And even $50 coins--someone else has paid for the slab. All assuming I really like the coin &amp; it&#039;s a good price.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as slabbed coins being &quot;entombed&quot;?--Most of us put our coins into some kind of holders--Whitman, Capitol, airtite, dansco (try unscrewing all 20 plastic screws to take one coin in or out of a Capitol holder for a large date set--now that&#039;s &quot;entombed&quot;). I haven&#039;t found NGC or PCGS slabs to diminish my enjoyment of the coins one bit. Again, assuming I like the coin, &amp; think it&#039;s fairly graded. I think the NGC or PCGS slabs are a good way to show the coins off, &amp; (mostly) I don&#039;t have to worry if they&#039;re fakes (esp. with gold), or that they were cleaned &amp; I didn&#039;t spot it, etc. I could sell them on teletrade, or fee-bay, &amp; probably get FMV.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my 2cents....YMMV....&amp; of course I can&#039;t tell anyone else what kind of coins to buy.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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