Yes, clearly you are right, however, when I say there is nothing useful from "conservative" grading, I mean it in the same way that a stack of...
There is no value in knowing the "conservative" grade of a coin for the sake of knowing the "conservative" grade of a coin. You're just lauding...
This is well said, however, it makes me consider another point, which is that differences on opinion as to what system of grading should be used...
Sure that's reasonable. I've answered your question by way of editing my original post up top.
I would feel much better about paying 95% for a coin if say I made an offer of 85% and the seller negotiated up to 95% in person, than if my...
Due to the recent discussion about CAC's technical grading evaluation of market graded coins, I'm creating this poll out of curiosity to see what...
Why do so many people post a Make an Offer that auto-declines any offer up to less than a few dollars under the Buy it Now price? What's the point...
Some material does well on ebay and other material does not. I sell my coins at a variety of places; wherever I think that material will get the...
Definitely looks like salt water corrosion.
There's nothing wrong with slabbing a problem coin in the right circumstances. Many issues dont have enough surviving examples for all the...
Fair points, but we also commonly accept that certain older NGC, PCGS, and soap bar ANACS coins are undergraded by today's standards and can...
Yes I'm glad you brought that up, because I should have clarified on this point. When I say damage here I'm not talking about problem coins. I am...
I've been a member of the JRCS for a long time, and as many here know, I am a die state collector for bust quarters. The problem with technical...
Yes you've said that twice now, and it's very easy to say something isn't true, isn't it? Do please explain how shuffling, sorting, handling,...
You mean ignoring facts like how play wear on cards is directly analogous to circulation wear on coins? You mean ignoring facts like how coins...
I posit that the reason collectors want technical grading is because they grew up being told that technical grading is the way you grade coins,...
That's not a defensible statement. Collectible playing cards like Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, etc. are absolutely analogous to coins as they...
Baseball card grading has a concept of near mint, mint, and gem mint, but it is a linear quality scale. I'm not saying they won't understand it....
But you don't actually believe that. You know as well as I do that the TPGs will readily grade circulated coins up to MS62 and sometimes higher...
That is circular logic. Identifying wear is only important because you feel the need to define the boundary between circulated and uncirculated....
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