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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7782138, member: 19463&quot;]I really liked the thoughts in this post except for point #3 which I would prefer omitted.&nbsp; After we buy a coin, we are better off not considering the current market value until we get to a point that we no longer want the coin and want to sell it.&nbsp; If you start out thinking just how happy you would be if you no longer owned the coin, it would seem best not to have bought it in the first place.&nbsp; If all the coins are to you is an investment, there are better returns available.&nbsp; If you sell a coin you like, you no longer have it.&nbsp; I try to sell coins that no longer thrill me and keep the ones that still do even more than when they were first purchased.&nbsp; What would my favorite coins bring if sold?&nbsp; I won&#039;t know. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Remember the reason slabs were invented was to open the market up to people with no desire to learn for themselves and facilitate trading without involving anyone with a clue.&nbsp; They have succeeded rather well. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the information.&nbsp; The text does not say each point is 20% of the population of the coins they have graded but 20% of the condition span from worst, through middle to superb taking into account either strike or surfaces.&nbsp; The fact that a coin is graded 4/5 does not mean that there exists any 5/5 beauties or 1/5 dogs but just that the coin is only part way down the path from excellent to awful.&nbsp; Again, I would use the Poros dekadrachms as an example. The best I have seen </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1178661" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1178661" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1178661</a></p><p>might be 3/5 for strike and there are some that are 1/5 only because 0/5 was not an option.&nbsp; I do wonder how many of these have been slabbed. </p><p>Heritage did sell one graded NGC Fine 4/5 - 1/5. which may actually be correct at 4/5 for strike.&nbsp; The surfaces make it hard to photograph.&nbsp; Surface 1/5 is certain.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5877710" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5877710" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5877710</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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