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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 651793, member: 19065&quot;]Wow! I surprized myself picking out that cleaned &quot;O&quot;. Even though I erred on the low price side of $70 to $80, I suppose I can now understand $110 is achievable.</p><p><br /></p><p>An aside from the thread...</p><p><br /></p><p>Desertgem, et al.: I am <u>really</u> enjoying these threads. I hope you and/or others will be able to continue posting them with some regularity. These educational threads are exactly the kind of grading issues and learning from others that I was hoping to find here on CT when I recently joined. I am personally finding myself at a stage in my collecting interests of upgrading and narrowing my pieces into a modest mix of US coins with no real goal formulated on how big the collection might be or what specific coins and dates I prefer other than that I prefer pieces without our Presidents on them. I don&#039;t dislike Presidential portraits, I just have a different current enthusiasm. So, I&#039;m just following my own meandering path in collecting and I&#039;ll look back later to see what directions I took. I&#039;m in no way new to coin collecting, it&#039;s just taken me many years to know what I want out of it and to deal with various stops and starts in collecting. I primarily want to learn about grading so that I might have greater confidence in the grades of coins I consider purchasing and take confidence in the slabbed coins&#039; authentication as well as a (hopefully) maintainable value along with the TPG provenance whenever possible. It&#039;s just a recent move up into acquiring slabbed and graded coins for me. I like the coin not the slab, but I respect the prescience of the TPG when a coin is slabbed. I also understand how TPGs might be skewed in grading and perspectives over time may change grading opinions. One area of fuzziness I&#039;m currently digging around in are ANACS grades and <a href="http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/BarCode.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/BarCode.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" rel="nofollow">codes</a>. I&#039;m trying to learn how they specifically work and arrive at their system, especially noting on their website that they continue to add codes of distinction to their system. It doesn&#039;t seem a very complete or cohesive system to me yet. I understand Conder101 has done a lot of work on ANACS slabs and I am trying to get in touch with him about these particularly. So I&#039;m learning, always lots to learn...</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway! Enough of/from me in your thread. I really appreciate these topics and opportunities to participate in these threads.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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