If, for whatever reason(s) you don't have the ability to buy the right coins at the right prices 1) you can easily lose money even if the "value"...
Those would be investments too, just not the kind you want.:mad:
Welcome to the forum. Your item looks like a token of some type, and while I don't know anything about it, my guess is that it doesn't have any...
I absolutely believe that grade-flation exists. But I think it has occurred more slowly, over a much longer period of time then you seem to think....
Just for fun, I started a thread on another forum, without stating what I thought. The replies were pretty much as I had expected:...
Only if the MS65 is a better quality and/or more appealing looking coin than the MS66.
Impossible to tell from those images - I would guess XF45 to AU.
There are several factors which are as or more important than buying the "right grade". Among them are: Buying solid and/or eye/appealing coins...
I didn't say it was, nor did anyone else here, as best I can remember. I talked to him about it on numerous occasions long before he started CAC.
If I were in Mr. Albanese's shoes and someone had libeled me, I would want to know about it. Especially if the responsible party had been made...
I believe that the grading companies "price" coins to an extent in their grading, but not as much as some people seem to think. Also, it can work...
I didn't realize that your question (" PCGS ignores this aspect of their own written standards too huh ?") was a rhetorical one.:rolleyes: I don't...
Doug, Are we older folks supposed to remember that you posted earlier in the thread in reference to a particular type of gold coin and didn't...
Thank you Doug. What makes me say differently is having seen large quantities of certified coins that appear to be in direct conflict with those...
Charmy, I hate to have to tell you this, but I wholeheartedly agree.;) Very well said.
More going on on a side isn't necessarily synonymous with importance with respect to grading. Part of the very reason that the obverse of the...
I agree with you in principle. However, on a practical basis, far too many collectors aren't knowledgeable enough to be safely spending their...
You're talking about distractions, and on circulated coins, whereas I was speaking of grading, primarily on uncirculated coins. And keep in mind,...
Absolutely.
The Morgan isn't different in that regard. The importance of its obverse relative to its reverse is as important as any coin type that I can think of.
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