Ruben... I resemble that remark!!!!
here's something that I think they do exceptionally: I LOVE LOVE LOVE the mint statistics! Mintages for the current US Mint products is...
David, we are talking about grading against an ideal standard. There are no sides, just people who see things in different ways. You do understand...
Speedy, we don't ignore those facts. We just want to evaluate them all against each other, not just one date and M/M at a time.
I am tired, and I will talk more of this in the morning. At this rate, I am going to be at 2000 posts by next week. lol goodnight all
I'm not judging against any coin, I am judging against an ideal. and no... we are looking at a coin as a product. something that was...
then the answer to your question is MS-69
you have to value certain attributes is what I mean to say. Bias is a word that actually means slanted unfairly, and I don't mean it that way
Doug, do we have to go into the definition of what the word "is" means? By definition, in order to compare anything against anything else, you...
you're missing the whole concept of a composite... think of the best Morgan you can think of. What does it grade? Does it have flaws? I bet it...
some would say that EVERY evalutaion system is biased or else everything would be equal. I guess it depends on which bias you want to discount and...
OMG thank you guys I LOVE YOU!!! I thought that i had lost Robert Chambers forever!!! was wondering why he wasn't on shopNBC anymore!!! this is...
spock, we're talking hubs, not dies die degradation = lesser grade
I guess it would depend on what coin has the best strike. I was saying that I don't think that ANY coin grades MS-70, and I think that you agree.
oh, and by the way... I do understand what the laundry list of authors you mentioned say. You judge each coin by it's date and mint. You look at a...
A composite is a "total" expressed as a sum of many parts not necessarily belonging to the same coin. You take the best strike for breast...
I am sorry if I lost my temper. It should never get personal. I sometimes speak out of turn and I should keep my opinions to myself.
I think that this whole national parks series is gonna wreck a lot of the momentum that the statehood quarters series has achieved. I understand...
This is part of the problem Doug. we're not talking about judging Morgans by the average strike. In fact, that whole bell curve way of thinking is...
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