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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 694790, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Why would anyone pay to have an obvious MS-68, 69 graded?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Why would anyone pay to have an obvious MS-68, 69 graded?&nbsp; Especially when all these coins are that grade.</p><p>The whole thing is the biggest joke since Jose Tatum pawned off the V-nickle as a five dollar coin.</p><p>The grading companies are there to make money, make money, make money - get it?&nbsp; They are not there to help you and they are not there to help numismatics at all.</p><p>The very fact that they (and we) want grades on silver an gold eagles plus all modern comemoritives is a con to begin with.&nbsp; They are all perfect.</p><p>They are not coins struck for circulation where at least there is a challenge to find MS-64, 65, and 66 coins.</p><p>What would the early developers of the grading scales think if someone was dissapointed when they got back a MS-68???&nbsp; It&#039;s all crazy and we have no one to blame but ourselfs.&nbsp; The grading companies have hooked us all and we pay them for nothing - none of this stuff is ever going to be worth what a &quot;real coin&quot; in a proper grade in original condition is worth.</p><p>We have only ourselves to blame.&nbsp; Everyone talks about the shopping networks being a rip but they are not very much different than the TPG companies - they are both selling you the illusion of something that will not be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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