"REMEMBER, SLABBING IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY AND NOT THE HOBBY"

That's where I was headed ED!

What slabbing and grading has done for coins, is create one issue after another, one problem or lawsuit after another. It drove up the prices for dealers, and made it more expensive for collectors. Then there's the whole game of cracking open coins and having them re-graded. Plus a grading system that seems to have been sliding upwards, so coins not only get more valuable, but they get graded higher, even when it's the same coin!

Grading companies know that they will make more money if they grade higher than another company, so they are pushing the edge. Plus they make more on re-grading, because it creates volume. It's a big snowball of price and value increases, that's rolling down the hill for a big crash at the bottom of the mountain.

Now you can only list a grade or value, on a coin, on eBay, if it comes from an eBay authorized grading service, and if you scan both sides of the entire case, the serial number. Doesn't this seem a bit restrictive and limiting? Sure, because the crooks and cheaters have invaded the marketplace with their own grading and slabbing scams.

Anyone who can learn from watching coin collecting and other hobbies that have been destroyed by encasing and grading (in combination) should have no problem seeing into the future of casino collecting, and not want the same thing to happen to our hobby.

Then there's the point that chips are not coins. There are often no mintage records, (No Mint) and they are plastic!

"REMEMBER, SLABBING IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY AND NOT THE HOBBY"