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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevereecy, post: 4831230, member: 19884&quot;]Interesting.&nbsp; That could have an effect on the value of certain coins in certain grades.&nbsp; I&#039;ll have to ponder that to figure out what I might want to snatch up now while I still can.</p><p><br /></p><p>For fun, I did a quick study of some prices on ebay.&nbsp; I looked up some Morgan Dollars that graded AU55 that were prices at either $100 or $200 and compared them to their raw counterparts.</p><p><br /></p><p>In general, a slabbed AU55 morgan that sells for $100 goes for about $50 raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>In general, a slabbed AU55 morgan that sells for $200 goes for about $150 raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>This implies that if the value of the coin (in the slab) doubles, perhaps the &quot;slabbing premium&quot; doesn&#039;t increase.&nbsp; But on the other hand, at least it doesn&#039;t lose value.&nbsp; My gut tells me that it does increase at the higher grades.&nbsp; And I also suspect that slabbing becomes more important when you&#039;re dealing with MS coins since being wrong is so much more hurtful at higher dollar values.</p><p><br /></p><p>Steve[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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