Just imagine how much money we could milk from car collectors if we created a car grading company on the same premise! We could just throw a new...
Not really. The key here is debt. Debt is a very specific legal term and is used to identify when a product or service had been received with...
I would say that you are rather limited on that particular set. I would personally go up to $30 on that set if I were in the market for it....
I should reiterate on my above post, as I am not trying to say that a grade would "get a bump" for being an exceptional or above average strike in...
That's one way of looking at it. But then consider this. There are different ways of grading coins. Some people will start with market aware...
You pretty much understand the underlying basis for it. You send it in, pay your fee, and they either send you the slab back non-stickered (kinda...
Sort, easy...extensive cherry-pick, near impossible. ;) Then again, I have five kids, so there is quite an amount of disruption and interruption.
Agreed, with minor adjustments. :) $50 face in cents can be gone through, sorted, and cherry-picked in a good 72 hour session, less proper...
Not the complete collapse of the numismatic market, but the TPG market. Your explanation of why you like CaC reveals some insight into what I'm...
A reliable system for buying coins sight unseen does not and cannot exist. This is the supposed purpose of the TPGs, and it has failed to...
That's funny! After replying to AJ's last comment, I just realized this thread is supposed to be about grading weak strikes. :hammer: Never...
Weak strikes generally occur when the dies are positioned too far apart. In days of old, the mint would do this to prolong the lifetime of the...
Looks like you already got clarification and answered it. Personally, I like the idea of split grades. I buy coins sometimes simply for the...
So you're from the era where dealers would advertise coins as "MS-65++: and "MS-65-". Well, not much has changed except now they give grades with...
Of course, we are all talking about "market grading" and this is very much so the realm of the TPGs, so to speak. Now, many of us have seen quite...
The very first thing I consider is always the technical aspects of the coin. The reason I do this is because market aspects can make the "grade"...
Yes and no. It depends on the standard you use as well as whether you are talking technical grade or market grade. Take for instance, the Barber...
Speaking of Bowers, he makes an intuitive remark about grading in his book "The Expert's Guide...": "Buy the coin, not the plastic" comes to...
You'd be amazed at how many late nights I close a browser tab after writing six or seven paragraphs just because I realize suddenly that I muffed...
No it wouldn't. That's the whole point. The coin would be MS-65 graded technically. A weakly struck can grade MS-65 and above based on...
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