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Message:: [QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 448326, member: 4920"]David, I'm replying in-line. These are just my opinions, now... Assuming the foregoing assumptions are valid (and, fact is, I don't know, either way, so I'm not assuming they're not valid), I'd say, simply, to facilitate trading.    I hear that "axiom" one more time I think I'm going to puke. From a pure investment standpoint, think about it, who cares about the coin? Can you see "pedigree," in a coin? Yet, pedigree now lifts the coin's market grade, because the market is willing to pay for it. The only relevance that bromide has is for collectors. And if you're a collector you don't need no stinking third-party opinion. When you buy, you do the same thing, whether the coin is "slabbed" or "raw." You look at the coin, grade the coin, and you forget about the TPG and/or CAC, they're irrelevant. Those are idiots, IMHO. Absolutely. If you're a seller, you want that third-party "professional" opinion on the coin, because that's going to help facilitate the transaction, at a grade that's consistent with what the market is willing to shell out. The TPGs know that, because that's their job.[/QUOTE]