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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 449820, member: 4626&quot;]I&#039;d have to disagree with that... an &quot;objective opinion&quot; is an oxymoron, because all opinions by definition are subjective.&nbsp; And any pronouncement that a given coin has a given grade is merely an opinion, no matter how supposedly &quot;expert&quot; it is.&nbsp; The opinion of a movie reviewers who sees hundreds of movies is no less subjective than the opinion of someone who only sees a few.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway... I think most members are aware about my feelings on the TPGs so won&#039;t belabor the fact I think their service is worse than worthless to the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>But even if I were to concede their service has value, I can&#039;t see why any collector would bother having any of his coins slabbed unless he was planning on selling them.&nbsp; If you&#039;re keeping it to yourself, then really isn&#039;t it just your own opinion that matters?&nbsp; And there&#039;s plenty of holders that can protect the coin that are much cheaper than a grading fee.&nbsp; All my coins I have in my collection I&#039;m planning on keeping the rest of my life, if possible, so other people&#039;s opinions of their grades are pretty much irrelevant to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did have a coin slabbed, once... it&#039;s a 1986 Statue of Liberty half dollar commemorative.&nbsp; I got it slabbed partly because I lost the original packaging and it was in a scratched capsule, and partially to satisfy my curiosity at what getting a coin slabbed would be like.&nbsp; I have no intention on selling it (it&#039;s not worth what it cost to grade it) so the fact that ANACS called it a PF 69 DCAM means nothing to me really.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for my relatives... I&#039;d like to think that they wouldn&#039;t break up my collection after I was gone, but at that point it&#039;s not my problem anymore.&nbsp; You can&#039;t take it with you after all.&nbsp; I&#039;m planning on leaving my collection to my brother who I&#039;d think would have more respect for the collection instead of only caring what it might be worth.&nbsp; But even if my heirs were of the mind to sell the collection... that&#039;s their problem if they want to get a fair price for it, not mine, and call me selfish if you like, but I don&#039;t see why I should do anything to facilitate them doing what I&#039;d rather them not do in the first place.</p><p><br /></p><p>So why would I slab any of my coins?&nbsp; Beats me.&nbsp; None of the logical reasons I could conceive of for doing so apply to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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