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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 4831215, member: 26302&quot;]Dude, completely wrong. The market will NOT pay you back $30 in grading fees. You take a $50 coin, spend $30 to slab it, and you have - a $50 coin in a slab. Unless you are talking about a condition rarity or something, run of the mill coins in slabs you are NOT adding value to. Remember, the game is stacked against you. The big players pay WAY less in slabbing fees.</p><p><br /></p><p>For ancients, experienced collectors actually pay LESS for slabbed coins. Its a pain cracking out the cases to remove the slab, so I discount my bids to pay me for this work. Most ancient collectors break open any slabs someone wasted money on. Sure, HA sells lots of slabbed ancients. That is because they do not want the risk of grading the coins themselves, and sell mainly to non-ancient collectors. I have bought some items there at times, but again discount what I will pay to account for having to crack open slabs. With HA charging sales tax nationwide now, I never even look at ancients there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do I hate all slabs? Of course not. I tell people to buy their 1916d dimes in slabs, as well as many other faked coins if you are not a true expert in the series. I personally buy slabbed colonial currency since to me its harder to authenticate them and they were heavily copied and forged for a couple of centuries. I buy slabbed items I am not an expert in, especially when talking about 4 figures plus. The guarantee of authenticity is what is valuable to me with slabs, (which btw is not even valid on ancients slabbed).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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