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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 515781, member: 66&quot;]Why?&nbsp; If I don&#039;t think the coin is a 69 I wouldn&#039;t pay 69 money for it no matter what the slab says.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that slabs encourage laziness and get collectors to operate out of their depth.&nbsp; Why learn to grade, the TPG&#039;s do that, why learn to authenticate the TPG&#039;s do that, why learn about the coin to help determine the value the slab has a number and I can look it up on the sheet.&nbsp; Some say that they protect newbies from making expensive mistakes until they can learn.&nbsp; So slabs encourage them to spend lots of money on things they don&#039;t understand and which many of them will never understand.&nbsp; People say that they would never feel comfortable spending large sums on raw coins, well then you don&#039;t know enough yet to be buying them.&nbsp; And while many say that they depend on the salbs until they can learn, a great mony just take the lazy way out and just put total dependancy on the TPG.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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