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<p>[QUOTE="hkiefus, post: 754228, member: 21962"]<font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Ok, then let’s get on to a touchy subject. Is it just a generally accepted practice to over grade coins for the purpose of selling at the highest price? What do you suppose the median integrity level is on eBay? Aren’t there a good many coin dealers on there selling? (And I mean affiliated dealers, not So an So’s Card Shoppe.) Is ‘Above average BU’ a BS statement? Or perhaps is it just that we (well you really because I’ll still be ignorant for another 19 years and 6 months) stay away from specific terms like MS 63 because grading is so subjective?</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I mean for a guy like me (at least in this point in my journey) all I desire is to pull out a nice shiny (book) of silver coins for my friends to look at and remember back to that day in 19xx when that coin was minted they were…</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I’m only asking because it seems like I’m being a real PITA if I ask questions (of sellers).</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hkiefus, post: 754228, member: 21962"][SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]Ok, then let’s get on to a touchy subject. Is it just a generally accepted practice to over grade coins for the purpose of selling at the highest price? What do you suppose the median integrity level is on eBay? Aren’t there a good many coin dealers on there selling? (And I mean affiliated dealers, not So an So’s Card Shoppe.) Is ‘Above average BU’ a BS statement? Or perhaps is it just that we (well you really because I’ll still be ignorant for another 19 years and 6 months) stay away from specific terms like MS 63 because grading is so subjective?[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I mean for a guy like me (at least in this point in my journey) all I desire is to pull out a nice shiny (book) of silver coins for my friends to look at and remember back to that day in 19xx when that coin was minted they were…[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I’m only asking because it seems like I’m being a real PITA if I ask questions (of sellers).[/FONT][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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