Slabbed Coins

Well, for some reason I am not allowed to vote in the poll. It keeps saying that I have to vote before I can view the results. (I am clicking the "Vote Now" option, and not the "View Results" because I have tried 3 times.)

I prefer to sell slabbed coins, just because when I am selling online it makes it easier to sell, and me and the buyer are not arguing over 1 point.

When buying coins, I really don't have a preference. I like both slabbed and raw.

being a newb im stuck in the middle, I like having to prepare and put coins into 2x2's, but I also really like the one slabbed coin I do have. pretty much I will take em anyway if I like em and the price is right

I prefer to sell some coins slabbed and others raw but I almost never sell my coins so it's a moot point. Buying I have no preference given I can actually see the coin in hand. If buying sight unseen and I do not know the seller very well I'd prefer to purchase graded coins.

well. I give up that vote, graded coins worth more, don't know why. howvever, I prefer raw coins as my personal collection because I think everything comes with a slab looks like faux, I cannot touch, move and feel the coin-self, just like you went a monkey zoo and saw those monkeys play around behind a big glass.
and how can I know the coin is real or fake, just because they been slabbed?

I voted slabs ,
I am happy to buy raw coins at auction houses and coin shows when I see them in the hand ,not so happy to buy on eBay with some of the tricks they can do with photography ., sometimes its just punt . Slabs are made for easy eBay selling imo . I am happy to buy slab on eBay but yep must be right price.

I am happy to see my better coins in slabs ,pre decimal proofs and florins yep for the protection the slab gives.
I have seen dealers rubber band proof sets together in 2x2 holders they still rub and clang against each coin every time they remove the rubber band to show customer.

Also when I kick the bucket , I think the beneficiaries of my coins in my will, will have slightly less of a chance of been ripped off, now my higher valued coins are professionally graded.

I do not have a specific preference either way - on the whole I find the majority of coins I am seeking to be in the unslabbed market and priced at reasonable levels.

I tend to place more emphasis on the track record of the seller for selling genuine, unadulterated coins, and my own personal assessment of the coin (preferably in hand).

It is well known that many forgers/"restorers" view the slabbing of their coins as the ultimate crowning achievement of their art, and that there are plenty of fake slabs containing fake coins in the wild, so I do not view slabbed coins as being exempt from scrutiny and certainly not worthy of paying extra for.

However, on certain key dates or certain key coins above a certain value, where I could not ascertain the genuineness or condition in person I would be inclined to favour slabbed coins.

Trout with all respect the graders at PCGS grade almost certainly more Franklin halves in a week that you'll ever see in your lifetime. Did you give any thought to the fact that the flat spots are strike weakness and not wear? Did you give any thought to the fact that PCGS grades coins strongly based on lustre and perhaps you don't value it as highly? Did you give any thought to the fact that YOUR grading standard is different to the one PCGS uses? You call it EF, they call is MS64. The standards ARE DIFFERENT. Yours is no more right or wrong than theirs.

I should add for those that are starting to think that I'm a TPG graded coin advocate I should point out that only a small % of my collection is graded. Graded coins have their uses, sometimes its warranted and sometimes it's not. I guess I am trying to get across that TPG coins aren't good or bad, they are just different. Biased "anti slab" advocates always bring up arguments that are equally applicable to the raw coin market yet somehow those points are ignored. Sure the coin Trout points out might be over-graded, but so are any number of raw coins in dealers books. No doubt there are raw coins that are over-graded in my collection and in (regardless of what he might think) Trout's collection too. Furthermore for every TPG coin seller that's trying to get a higher price for a coin because of the mis-leading AU grade on an AU55 slab I'll show you a seller that's selling a raw, dipped, wiped coin that he/she is foisting off as AU.

Learn what TPG coins bring to the table and you'll enjoy your hobby all the more.

weird looking "flat spots"
The marks are too strong to be bag marks.
I am of the understanding that MS indicates an uncirculated coin.
This one maybe AU58 and at a stretch MS60-61.
Regardless of which grading system used, IMHO this coin has been WAY over graded.
My point being is that the grading on slabbed coins is not infallible