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Message:: [QUOTE="srkjkd, post: 195086, member: 7248"]i guess i'm just getting old!! i was very active collecting as well as lots of buying and selling coins in 1980-1991. i went back to the firms i had used then which are still around (i.e; stacks, steve ivy(heritage), david bowers( bowers and ruddy..or merena... to anr and now stacks). others i used had vanished or merged or sold. however there was simply not a proliferation of slabs and i was able to trust the firm involved.  most coins regardless of grades were not slabbed and we graded the coin as the coin....which is what we should do now. i don't understand why the major firms won't handle raw coins. slabbed....not slabbed...reslabbed or super slabbed we couldn't agree on the grade then( or cleaned, or dipped, or natural tone or artificially toned,ect.,ect.) and with everything in slabs, no one can agree on them now....numismatics trudges on . glad to see that with all this technology available, grading services, ect. the beloved hobby hasn't changed!!!  it just strikes me as so odd as to why someone would pay $20-$30 to slab a coin thats only worth $50 or $60 at tops. you certainly don't have to pay a premium when you buy it so it seems unnecessary cost. i complain when i have to pay $10 shipping on a coin!!! oh well....i appreciate the info.[/QUOTE]