Third party Grading is something that I have not much experience with, since I have spent about a year casually, in the hobby I have gained some impressions through my interactions and experiences and through my reading.
First, I feel that I am more of a hobbyist than an investor, an investor has as his primary motivation for holding coins is to increase or preserve his money. He may appreciate the beauty of a coin, but he does not buy a coin because of its beauty but because he thinks,
A Dragon had invaded the land. All the signs were there. Crops ruined, shops shuttered, misery and poverty everywhere. All the villagers knew that they needed a hero that could find the dragon and slay it in its lair.
The oldest men had heard of dragons, not from their fathers, but from their grandfathers, and their grandfathers had also had it second hand. So what was known of dragons was spotty knowledge at best.
This knowledge was that dragons were coldblooded and reptilian,
I got off work and was on my way to the bank, I had my check to cash and I also wanted to see if I could get to my safe deposit box safely. I had been saving my collectable coins in there and now that the government had recalled all bullion and since my coins were classed as bullion I wanted to get them out but the bank had a treasury agent posted there every week for the last three months.
And anyone opening their box had to do so in front of the agent and let the agent inspect the box.
Life is composed of peaks and valleys, one day you are up, later you can be down. It seems to be either the way we people are built, or the way the world is organized.
For some time I have had my eye out for two coins, one would be a nice 1917 type 1 slq, the other was one of the new Libertads, besides that, other irons in the fire were my daughters wedding, and a neighbor boys, who has been friends with my son for over twenty years wedding, plus work has been gung ho, lots of overtime,
I have a fondness for coin shops, the good old fashioned brick and mortar shops, to tell the truth tho, there are only two coin shops that I have visited that are actually Brick and Mortar, there are also some located in conventional framed buildings, in shopping malls, and at flea markets. But I lump in those other shops at malls and stalls in the brick and mortar genre, which is basically a shop that has a physical presence, a store front, a counter, with a dealer or employees manning those counters.
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