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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2485687, member: 51347&quot;]Marketing 101.</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally think the guy listing the coin is brilliant. </p><p><br /></p><p>Folks have become so enamored with having their coins slabbed, that a see a whole sub-market growing with types of slabs, slab covers, slab holders, everyone worried about rating numbers, etc.&nbsp; Taking a pocket piece and slabbing it, and GOING for the LOWEST rating is great!&nbsp; He was probably disappointed with a high number of an 8! And, he may had wanted a LOWER rating!&nbsp; Come on:&nbsp; ROUGH estimates:&nbsp; $20 for the coin, $30 slabbing = $50 (or EVEN if it were $100 total), just to get the LOWEST rating, then MARKET it?&nbsp; LOL, good job and a wonderful play on all the folks that HAVE to have everything slabbed!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ah, the slabbing craze has moved a wonderful industry from the HOBBY of Kings for the last 2000 plus years, to a COMMODITY business in the last 20 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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