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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 443276, member: 4626&quot;]I&#039;m amused that the grading companies get away with this kind of scam.&nbsp; The top TPG&#039;s are no better than outfits like SGS... worse in a way, because nobody&#039;s calling them on it!</p><p><br /></p><p>The plastic case with a grade on it isn&#039;t supposed to make the <i>coin</i> more valuable, is it?&nbsp; If an almost perfect coin is worth about $20, why&#039;s it worth 30 times that an extra point higher?&nbsp; Logic would dictate to me if you want to collect one of these, you&#039;d be a fool to pay a rediculous price for an allegedly perfect one instead of the almost perfect one, especially given how arbitrary that 1 point difference is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if you&#039;re investing instead of collecting... it can&#039;t be ignored that there&#039;s a risk down the road of people deciding that MS 70&#039;s of these shouldn&#039;t really be worth 30 times an MS 69... or that the company overgraded them ,and they really are only a 69.&nbsp; Then you paid $6000 for a $20 coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Another possibility is those realized auction prices are a result of people who can afford the vanity to be the one with a registry set of a bunch of 70&#039;s... and want it so bad they&#039;ll pay rediculous money to get them, since who knows when the TPG&#039;s will be in a mood to gives 70&#039;s to any of them?&nbsp; At one time some TPG&#039;s beleived there was no such thing as perfect, and nothing should get a 70, then those who want the perfect registry set, even of common coins, won&#039;t be able to stoke their pride at any price.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the end of the day all you really have is a common coin only marginally better than one you could have got at 1/30 the price.&nbsp; That&#039;s something to be proud of?!!!&nbsp; Next people will be bragging about how much they spent on magic beans!</p><p><br /></p><p>A common coin is a common coin... even if some TPG slaps the best grade possible on it, an allegedly perfect coin should logically only be worth marginally more than an almost perfect one!&nbsp; Especially since perfection is just an arbitrary judgement call anyway.&nbsp; (The TPGs often can&#039;t agree, even amonst graders in the same company, how perfect perfect actually is, and 69 to 70 is a rediculously thin line to have such a huge value jump!)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is seriously insane... please tell me I&#039;m not alone in thinking that!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll go ahead and discount it.&nbsp; A mintage figure is a fact.&nbsp; A condition is an opinion.&nbsp; I&#039;m supposed to believe that a coin with a mintage in the hundreds of millions is worth $5000 just because some TPG thinks it&#039;s perfect today?&nbsp; Sorry, not buying it.&nbsp; The fact that MS 70 is a rarely achieved grade says a lot more about the graders than the coins, and maybe someday they&#039;ll loosen or tighten the standards... suddenly it may be eaiser to get a 70, or someday that might decide the 70&#039;s are actually 69&#039;s... and then how smart will the people who shelled out tons of money on the TPG&#039;s opinions of perfection going to feel?&nbsp; I honestly hope that happens, because that&#039;s one more step towards people storming the TPG&#039;s with torches and pitchforks for ripping them off all these years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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