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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2367949, member: 71723&quot;]I know the OP has beaten his hasty retreat, but I will herewith pontificate briefly. Young newbs need to be aware that often when they think they have something special, they are mistaken. If it were easy to acquire a valuable piece, it pretty much wouldn&#039;t be valuable, now would it? Keep that in mind, Mr. or Ms. Newbie. Those of us who have acquired the greying of our locks have more experience upon which to draw, and I won&#039;t speak of others, but I&#039;m nearly 61 now, and I&#039;ll put the quality of my formal, and informal, education up against most, even the <i>nuvo riche</i> of hot-shot Silicon Valley coders and software engineers. There were colleges in this country for far longer than many &quot;kids&quot; apparently think. The one I attended, and from which I graduated, was founded well before 1800 and still survives today, despite having granted me a degree in economics. Ironic, huh?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, all that said, the decision on whether a coin is worth having slabbed is an intensely personal one. The reasons can be as varied as one&#039;s imagination. It is fairly ignorant (and not at all uncommon, as it turns out) that a dealer would impute his own perfectly valid (for him) reasons for sending a coin in for grading upon the person before him. This hobby, and this market, is not just bifurcated, it&#039;s highly micro-segmented. Some are having things graded to enhance their immediate marketability. Some are assembling the future collections of their multi-generational progeny. Dealers need to ASK, not TELL customers about what their goals are.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the oddest slabbing examples, when taken one by one, begin to make obvious sense when taken as a whole, as in assembling a grading set, for example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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