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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 196103, member: 6036"]Exactly. There's a reason for that. Avoid 'em like the plague, at least for valuable coins. For low silver like this one, you can get this piece for less than meltdown - I suppose it's OK. Here's another interesting fact... take a look at several Power Player auction houses ... Teletrade, Heritage, Superior.... All of them deal in coins slabbed by NGC, PCGS, ANACS, and ICG... only. Nothing raw, and no other TPGs. That says a lot. Even if I had another TPG which I thought was "up and coming" and doing a great job - which I don't - it still wouldn't matter, for two reasons...<ol> <li>The marketplace has spoken, and it's a lot bigger than me. We seem to have settled on those four, with NGC and PCGS clear leaders. I deal with the market on the market's terms... I don't get to make the rules.</li> <li>Someday, I will pass away. I want it to be as easy as possible for my heirs to liquidate everything. As long as I deal only with The Big Four slabs, all they have to do is send everything in to a major auction house and wait for the check. It will be easy on them.</li> </ol>If I live to a ripe old age, I will liquidate everything myself so they don't have to mess with it. But if I should go unexpectedly, I want it to be easy on them.[/QUOTE]