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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 8291959, member: 101855&quot;]It sounds like no answer is going to please you, but I will give you this one based on 60+ years of experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>When prices on straight graded coins, the &quot;details coins&quot; often, but always follow suit. The trouble is the price increase for them will almost always be less, percentage wise, and the coin will still be harder to sell. It&#039;s much harder to get a good price for a &quot;yes but&quot; coin than it is for one that has no problems. With a no problem coin, the only question is really the price, and does the dealer need it in his inventory?</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s one of the reasons why I almost always avoid &quot;details&quot; coins. The other is that the defect will almost always bug me, and I will never the full enjoyment out of the piece as a collector.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And sometimes, if you know how to grade coins, the &quot;details&quot; coin might come back straight graded the next time. In the old days, you didn&#039;t get &quot;details&quot; coins in slabs. They came back in &quot;body bags.&quot; I had coins get body bags from one of the two leading grading services and come back graded from the other. I&#039;ve had it go both ways. Yes, NGC refused to grade it, but PCGS did.</p><p><br /></p><p>This 1858 Flying Eagle Cent got a body bag from PCGS for &quot;questionable toning.&quot; NGC straight graded it MS-64, which was the right grade in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1465928[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I once owned a bright white 1839-O half dollar that got a body bag from NGC, but a straight MS-63 grade from PCGS.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I know about a much about grading as anyone who works for the major firms. The trouble is they have to do it very fast, and I am no &quot;jack rabbit&quot; I would also get burnt out very quickly in that job.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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