Has anyone ever heard or collected a coin of different grades? Be neat to see a collection of morgans from grades PO1 to MS66
Some folks do it with coins in NGC or PCGS holder. Personally, I think there is a trap in this method in that some grades have few coins graded and each coin represents a single data point for the grade determination. This means that you may not truly have a nicer coin in an F15 holder vs. an F12 holder or for some other close grades and that kind of defeats the purpose of such an endeavor unless the challenge is simply to find the coin in the plastic.
I like the idea of mint state grading sets, but they have very similar traps to what Tom described for the circulated coins. At one time, I had 1881-S Morgan Dollars from MS60 to MS68. I had a goal of completing a pedigreed (Great Falls Collection) grading set of 1881-S Morgan Dollars buy I am missing several grades.
It's probably been done, but i don't think I would want to do it because some times the grade on the slab can be subjective to ones opinion.
Just out of curiosity, Paul, when you were contemplating this set, did you include PL & DMPL for each grade? Chris
I chair has one in the 1908s link should be in his sig Wasnt Matt LD putting a set of 09 vsb's together
If look at 10 coins, all same date/mint, all graded MS64 by PCGS, or 10 by NGC - all 10 of those coins are going to look different. If you look at 100 of them probably 75-80 are going to look different. One will have fewer contact marks, one better luster, one a better strike, one more eye appeal, one fewer hairlines, or bigger marks or smaller marks, or marks in different places, or one is better centered, or one has rim dings and one doesn't, or any combination of any or all of the above. No two coins of the same grade, any grade, even if you look at a 1000 of them, are equal. Every single one of them will be different in some way from every single one of the others. Every coin is unique. That is what makes grading hard to do. So does making a grading set help you ? Yeah, it does. But all it will do is give you an idea, a rough idea, of what that given coin, in that given grade, will look like. You cannot judge other coins and grade them based on what other coins of that grade look like. You can only grade and judge individual coins based on a set grading standards, not other coins already graded. But it helps you wrap your head around the idea. But you need a lot of them.
It was a thought I had when I was collecting rainbow toned Morgan Dollars. It never occurred to me to include the PL or DMPL since I didn't collect those coins at the time. In reality, it was more of a fleeting thought due to the reasons presented by both Tom & Doug. I recognized that it would be a fruitless endeavor.
