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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;walterallen, post: 317649, member: 4068&quot;]Hey Jim,</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a host of things. E-bay hosts all types: the knowledgeable and the novice; the honorable and the dishonest; people with integrity and those who just don&#039;t care. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve said before that I used to e-bay to collect and with great success. Today I won&#039;t touch it as a source for the coins I collect, mostly because my standards and grading skills are higher and I want at &quot;least&quot; what I pay for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading will aways be subjective, to a point. It takes a very long time to be truly an expert grader and as we know even those guys don&#039;t alway see it exactly the same way consistently. I&#039;m referring to MS coins mostly. My passion!</p><p><br /></p><p>With circulated coins, IMHO, there should be a better or stable grade to assign a coin with all the info we have today. I feel that with knowledge of the coin type and any special attributes about the year strike, anyone can be relatively safe in grading circulated coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>My plan is to save lots of money, buy only from reputable dealers and most of all study, study, study, then study some more. </p><p><br /></p><p>Keep on Collecting!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Allen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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