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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 422759, member: 4920&quot;]I agree with you 1000%. And, with Conder, who basically said the same thing. However, both of you, IMO, miss the point. Market grading is what the market will pay. And you put pedigree on a slab, and the market will pay a premium for that. But, assume the coin, itself, grades only AU. What kind of premium is that? A coin like that, with pedigree, has to grade MS, not AU. Why? Again, because that&#039;s the kind of money the market is willing to shell out for a coin like that. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, final step...the <i>coup de grace</i>*...what if the coin has wear? Well, not a problem, now, because we just call that &quot;cabinet friction.&quot; Are you beginning to get the idea?</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s take this nonsense even further. Buy the coin, not the slab..look at the coin, not the slab...that&#039;s the familiar bromide, right? How many times have you heard it? Well, not anymore, it&#039;s not. When pedigree now influences a coin&#039;s grade to where it can now all but obliterate wear as a grading factor, you&#039;re looking at the pedigree on the slab, and <i>overlooking </i>the wear on the coin. You&#039;re not caring about the wear on the coin anymore because (courtesy of the market graders) you now have the euphemism for it when there&#039;s pedigree on the slab...<i>cabinet friction</i>. And, everything, now, is right in the world, again (or, so we believe <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)...</p><p><br /></p><p>*edit - spelled that sucker wrong <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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