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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1363668, member: 26302&quot;]While I appreciate the work that slabbers do to authenticate coins, I have simply always had an issue with their method of grading. First, they make up their own grading standards. Think about that. Standards is supposed to mean, well standard. If every TPG creates their own definitions of a grade, and can change them whenever they feel like, how is this &quot;standard&quot; in any way? Secondly the whole slabbing thing allows crackouts and regrades ad infinitum because they do not track each coin to ensure its not a regrade. This effectively means if you see a slabbed coin its prbably either fairly graded or ovrgraded, sometime dramtically so. Again, no &quot;standard&quot; and no one to complain about the grade since the TPG make up their own.</p><p><br /></p><p>IF slabbing was done to verify authenticity, and TPG used independently set standards, (ANA, etc), and tracked each coin to ensure it only ever got graded once, then I may very well buy slabbed coins. Until then, I view it much as Moneyer as a slick money grab driving up the costs of the hobby, with little benefit except to the TPG bottom line.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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