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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moneyer12, post: 1556021, member: 28233&quot;]it is an american thing to buy a coin, and then without a second thought send that valuable coin via the post office to a third party who will charge you a large sum of money to &quot;grade&quot; your coin and entomb it in a slab of plastic. i really don&#039;t see the point in making sure someone makes a lot of money for doing something the average collector should be able to do (forget the plastic slab) when he can sit and handle his purchase and then insert it into a lindner tray with an acid neutral disc with the information written on it. when you weigh up the cost of having 1 coin slabbed you could buy 2 lindner trays to house nearly 150 coins in a stable environment. during my time as a collector (50 years) i have never owned or indeed wish to own a slabbed coin and i would certainly never pay someone to do what i am quite proficient at grading my own coins. if i want to question if a coin is genuine i get in my car and go to the curator of coins at manchester museum whom i have known for many years as fellow members of the british numismatists soci.ety and then it is for confirmation purposes only, what that costs me is a pint of guiness at the next society meeting. i recently sold my vast collection at auction and the auction houses re-graded my coins and informed me that my own grading was too strict as their valuer graded many higher than my original grading, this led to some coins and collections being sold for way above estimate. and not one of them were slabbed!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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