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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2561789, member: 19250&quot;]Here&#039;s&nbsp; where&nbsp; I&#039;m&nbsp; at on this coin. [USER=75984]@Cascade[/USER]</p><p>it&#039;s&nbsp; not a matter of who&#039;s&nbsp; right and who&#039;s&nbsp; wrong , we both come from different&nbsp; schools&nbsp; of thought on collecting&nbsp; coins. Mine is old school, no TPG,no stickers, coin club meetings , trading coins with other childhood&nbsp; friends, OR At Scout meetings. You sat down and talked about a specimen&nbsp; each giving their view sometimes you agreed sometimes you didn&#039;t&nbsp; you horse traded coins between the two of you. Now remember&nbsp; this was the early&nbsp; 60&#039;s so at that time you could find keys coins in your pocket change. </p><p>Heck I had a paper route every house paid me in silver certificates , red seals notes, and of course silver coins, even Liberty&nbsp; and buffalo nickels. </p><p>Cascade&nbsp; comes from a different&nbsp; time where his view is a more modern one based&nbsp; on where the hobby was in time when he began&nbsp; collecting. TPG, Stickers are all a part of the world he knows as a collector . Over 85% of my coins are raw 15 % graded. I venture&nbsp; to&nbsp; say&nbsp; that the same percentage&nbsp; are reversed in his collection&nbsp; maybe even more so as the balance&nbsp; between the two.</p><p>As we all know grading is subjective&nbsp; we all seen it as we have posted several times about a coin either&nbsp; over or under graded,or a coin that completely&nbsp; off the charts over or under graded.</p><p>What I believe&nbsp; has happen with this specimen&nbsp; is this....if you read the story of the hoard the coins were purchased&nbsp; and slowly&nbsp; sold off into the main stream in order to not flood the market.</p><p>However&nbsp; no matter how fast or slow these were most probably&nbsp; graded in large&nbsp; batches. Again if you read the story they were some of the nicest&nbsp; coins ever found in a hoard. That said&nbsp; I&#039;m&nbsp; sure the grader had their work cut out.</p><p>Imagine&nbsp; opening&nbsp; up&nbsp; a 500 to a 1000 bag of silver dollars that all looked as good or better than the one posted.</p><p>Where&#039;s&nbsp; the&nbsp; curve? Each coin with cart wheel luster all from a bag of 1880 &#039;s some of the nicest&nbsp; Morgan&#039;s&nbsp; minted&nbsp; strike wise. Can you imagine&nbsp; making the cut of 500-1000 silver dollar gems . </p><p>We all have our opinions&nbsp; and are from different&nbsp; schools,of thought . ..... and do I value Cascade&nbsp; opinions&nbsp; yes very much so as well as others here on CT. Having&nbsp; a&nbsp; coin in hand and making a call from an image is two different&nbsp; things . As there&#039;s&nbsp; some&nbsp; hits on her nose on this coin yet they don&#039;t&nbsp; show as much as the surface scrapes on her cheek. If the coin was tilted&nbsp; in a certain&nbsp; angle some of those&nbsp; lite scrapes almost&nbsp; become invisible&nbsp; another angle they look like she was in a bar fight.</p><p>We all bring something&nbsp; to this party&nbsp; and no matter what if we agree or disagree the common thread is we all share a passion! That passion is sharing what we love. And let me assure&nbsp; you when ever passion is apart of anything&nbsp; you will have people who agree&nbsp; and disagree . The thing one needs to understand&nbsp; is respect ,and that it is OK to agree or disagree as long as you respect each others views.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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