Nothing NGC would or could intentionally do to a coin would ever render it details, and certainly never cleaned. Now if someone requests...
You're assuming that having an account here means you're a coin collector. The bar for making an account on a website to ask a question is pretty...
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Who is talking about a 64? Not me. I'm referring to the example you gave about the Saint. And I didn't say the difference was 8 points. I said the...
This proves my point. A functional grading scale should not present scenarios where professional graders can differ on their grade by 8 points...
No, they are MS grades only in the current grading scale. On my scale they are not MS grades. They are quality grades, prefaced by a Q. The...
Except how would you map quality to those grades? AU58 is an exception. Some 58s are there legitimately as coins that circulated but very lightly....
Yeah I've heard that before. These two coins are both 58s so they're the same quality, it's just that this one is MUCH nicer than the other one......
Shh. People aren't ready for this concept. That's why I haven't brought it up. The letter prefixes have literally never had any value.
A fair point, but I'm not sure in this example you can decouple quality and value. For example take two of the exact same coin, one MS70 and one...
Yes I would not grade that as MS64. It's a circulated coin so it should not be in an MS slab. I would grade it as AU64 or Q64 AU depending on...
A great post. As an antiquarian, a large part of my library is books related to numismatics, dating back to the 17th century, so I have some...
I believe he's saying that Insider is actually like the flat earther because he knows what he knows based on the long standing knowledge of how...
This is absolutely not what I've been saying. In fact, I think I made the point quite clearly that I take a hard line approach on MS coins that is...
This more than anything else you've said demonstrates that you're not getting my concept. I've heard so often here that wear is wear. The concept...
It's kind of offensive that you assume that because I disagree with you on how something is done that it must be because I am uninformed. I am at...
I've read your explanations about grading history before, and I'm familiar with the origins of the Sheldon scale and its purpose. I believe that...
Yeah I considered that, but how would you tell a new MS62 from an old market graded MS62, etc.? The QXX AU/MS format serves two purposes. First it...
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