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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 262997, member: 112&quot;]You said it quite well, and you&#039;re right - a coin being in a slab does not make it 1 cent more valuable than it would be raw. Being in the slab does however make it easier to sell. And that&#039;s the rub.</p><p><br /></p><p>Too many people mistakenly interpret easier to sell as being more valuable. It isn&#039;t. But you need to qualify the statement as well for it all depends upon your buyer. For instance - if you put a given coin up on ebay there is a certain type of buyer that is likely to see the coin. A lot of those buyers are poorly educated when it comes to coins and they have little if any idea of true value. Because of that the tend to pay more for slabbed coins even when they shouldn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you offered the very same coin for sale raw or slabbed to a group of educated buyers - they would ignore the slab and the grade on it and bid what they knew the coin to be worth. It&#039;s just that simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that&#039;s the problem, there are not that many educated buyers out there and so it is much easier to sell a slabbed coin than it is a raw one. Especially if the coin has a value above a few hundred dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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