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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 515295, member: 13650&quot;]Well, I got upset. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I was going to do what GD did but he just saved me the time and covered it well.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Slabs can be polished and scratches removed.&nbsp; If it&#039;s bad enough, send it in and get it reholdered!</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Most people DON&#039;T know how to grade!&nbsp; I think that may be the BEST aspect of them. They&#039;re being paid as a third party to get it right most of the time.&nbsp; IMO, a third party with no financial interests on whether something&#039;s a 64 or 65, needs to be and should be involved. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Dealers listing raw coins on ebay are many times easily off by 2 or 3 grades in their descriptions and trying to rip off the uneducated!&nbsp;&nbsp; The slabs at least cut that B.S. out.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just look at the bad AT&#039;d coins that sell on ebay.&nbsp; It&#039;s pathetic.&nbsp; Rainbow state quarters?&nbsp; Really?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The new NGC slabs protect coins from UV and hold them by the edges.&nbsp; Since they&#039;re not completely air-tite, you can stick them in an Intercept Shield slab cover and then stick them in an IS box so they won&#039;t tone!&nbsp; What else are you going to use besides a vacuum to accomplish this?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Seriously, what&#039;s a better alternative?&nbsp; &nbsp; Cardboard 2x2s in a shoe box in the attic?&nbsp; No holder at all?&nbsp;&nbsp; You have to at least provide us with a better alternative.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Why should they be discounted when a minimum of two people who grade and authenticate coins for a living have spent their time to grade the coin and then somebody was paid to encapsulate it in their property?&nbsp;&nbsp; A raw coin that could be fake did not receive this treatment.&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#039;t understand.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; With all the excellent, appropriate metal content, fakes the Chinese are cranking out, I just wouldn&#039;t buy a high end coin that wasn&#039;t at the least slabbed by one of the top 3.&nbsp; For at least SOME piece of mind other than a dealer&#039;s (who I don&#039;t know) word.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Yes, theres always a chance that the TPG could have missed it and slabbed a fake.&nbsp; But I&#039;ll do my homework, understand characteristics, colors, etc.. and at least start out with the percentages in my favor, evaluating a slabbed coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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