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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;halfcent1793, post: 2916104, member: 86853&quot;]Coin collecting will change as it has, but it will not die out. The adoption of the 11 (or 22) point UNC grading scale under heavy dealer pressure has made grading too opaque for most collectors, which gives dealers too much leverage over them. The scale is essentially irrelevant for coins other than commodity coins like Morgans and St. Gaudens, but we have it none the less. </p><p><br /></p><p>Early US and colonial copper collecting remains strong and vibrant with lots of interested collectors and lots of interesting research coming out all the time. I don&#039;t think the collecting of truly historic coins will disappear. It probably won&#039;t even diminish.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can, however, see the day when it ceases to be all about the number on the little piece of paper in the plastic slab. When all of the bickering over + and star grades of commodity coins gets too old and when registry sets of modern coins wear out their time as more and more people pay to have extremely common coins slabbed in the hopes of that mystical half a point grade on the piece of paper. </p><p><br /></p><p>Real collector coins will still be around and will still be appreciated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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