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<p>[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3210967, member: 78244"]The market grading crap got overly annoying, so I left the market altoghether.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t either. Actually, that’s a lie. All of the fuss is that collectors can be assured of a value of their coins without having to have the knowledge/skill/effort of determining it themselves. So new collectors, investors, and the plain ol’ lazy folks are driving the demand of the slabs. More-advanced collectors just accept that slabs are the way thing are now.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So am I. It allows me to get decent coins for great prices.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I prefer my coins raw, but there is NO WAY IN HECK that you can get what they are truly worth (sometimes not even 25%!) when raw. (I am talking collector-to-collector, not selling to dealers.) I also found completely annoying and stupid.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, I had a VF 1827 dime. I could not even get VG money for it raw. Once certified, I sold it for full value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another example is an 1803 large cent that is VF by every measure of the grade. NGC graded it F-15, which drops the value by half <i>because of the holder, not the merit of the coin itself.</i> Here is a picture of it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]833662[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]833663[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And some people wonder why I got so soured by the US coin market...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3210967, member: 78244"]The market grading crap got overly annoying, so I left the market altoghether. I don’t either. Actually, that’s a lie. All of the fuss is that collectors can be assured of a value of their coins without having to have the knowledge/skill/effort of determining it themselves. So new collectors, investors, and the plain ol’ lazy folks are driving the demand of the slabs. More-advanced collectors just accept that slabs are the way thing are now. So am I. It allows me to get decent coins for great prices. I prefer my coins raw, but there is NO WAY IN HECK that you can get what they are truly worth (sometimes not even 25%!) when raw. (I am talking collector-to-collector, not selling to dealers.) I also found completely annoying and stupid. For example, I had a VF 1827 dime. I could not even get VG money for it raw. Once certified, I sold it for full value. Another example is an 1803 large cent that is VF by every measure of the grade. NGC graded it F-15, which drops the value by half [I]because of the holder, not the merit of the coin itself.[/I] Here is a picture of it: [ATTACH=full]833662[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]833663[/ATTACH] And some people wonder why I got so soured by the US coin market...[/QUOTE]
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