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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2480432, member: 78153&quot;]Totally agree.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, the real problem is not &quot;accurate&quot; grading but the widening gap between the prior prices and the incomes of the collector base to pay it.&nbsp; No &quot;fine tuning&quot; of the grading scale is going to resolve this discrepancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>My approach is to only buy coins I like enough where I won&#039;t mind if they lose value.&nbsp; I don&#039;t plan to sell my core collection, so what happens to the prices is not really that important to me.&nbsp; I also don&#039;t believe (and explicitly stated it) that my collection will ever appreciate enough where it will ever make any real difference to my financial circumstances anyway.&nbsp; There is no financial scale to the series I collect (except South Africa for a low number of buyers and the market crashed after I dumped most of my collection).&nbsp; So higher prices just make it more expensive to add to my collection with the only upside that availability for what exists improves somewhat.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe your description of &quot;dead series&quot; is going to become a lot worse, especially for the most widely collected US series that are not predominantly &quot;investment&quot; coins.&nbsp; By &quot;investment&quot;, I exclude (to a point) Morgan dollars and generic classic gold because there is substantial financial buying in these series.&nbsp; I believe these can do well (at least temporarily) by benefitting from another metal price increase.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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