A pair of 1878-cc Morgan dollars I received from my grandfather.
After thinking about this pretty carefully, what I believe in and practice could probably be called "wallet grading," instead of market grading or...
I appreciate posts like this coming from collectors, or former collectors, with a great deal more knowledge than I have. If an expert can feel...
Mike, I'm very happy to hear that sort of opinion come from such a knowledgeable collector. I stopped using a loupe about a year ago because I...
nick66 - I definitely think the idea has merit. Maybe not for one single coin, but I believe the concept of limiting a personal collection to a...
One conclusion I draw from this discussion is that some of the huge price differences between grades are not warranted based on the lack of...
My favorite morgan dollar is the 1878-cc of which I own two. The best silver eagle is the one I paid the least amount of money for since I view...
That's just one more bad coin out there for someone to buy. At least that's a start.
To me this sounds like an admission that the hobby would have been better served if the first TPG slabbed the coin and identified it as cleaned or...
Your thinking is quite correct.
I tend to agree with this. The numerical grade can be given too much importance and can cause the buyer to overpay if the goal is to have a...
I have found photograde to be the overall best guide to grading for me, but it's only good up to AU coins. Beyond that point I have only...
Speedy, I would say they should even slab a counterfeit and label it as such. They've been paid. Maybe this will keep the owner from reselling...
Interestingly, my wife picked up 12 halves at the credit union today [it's all they had] because she knows I like to look at them. There was one...
Roy - Like I said, I don't expect people to agree, but that's how I see it. The people running the TPGs are, in my opinion, bad...
Thanks for the encouragement. I enjoy discussions on the topic, maybe because I'm really trying to understand what people have against gold and...
I would never expect a relative to somehow figure out what sort of coin to buy because it's too complicated [If I can barely do it for myself,...
I"m probably alone in this, but that sort of treatment borders on a scam to me, even if it is disclosed. In my opinion, TPGs have an ethical, if...
I'm sure you'll get another chance. Markets rarely move in straight lines even when the long term trend is up or down. Also, and I'm flat out...
Very interesting posts by Mike and Quick Dog. It's true that money used to be thought of as a weight, not a dollar amount. A "dollar" was...
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