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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 6410377, member: 101855&quot;]How times have changed! </p><p><br /></p><p>My first nice early U.S. coin was a 1799 dollar priced at $210. It graded VF-30 or so, but it had been dipped white. I bought it in 1970, and coins like that were considered to be okay. I sold it to a dealer in the mid 1970s for $475. </p><p><br /></p><p>My next 1799 Dollar was really nice one that I bought from a member of my local coin club in Massachusetts. He told me he had paid $15 for it from who knows when. He knew I liked the coin. He wanted to take a trip with his wife to Bermuda so he offered it to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>We all know that grading changes over time. I graded the coin EF-45. He graded it has an AU, and for that reason we disagreed over the price. He sent the coin to ANACS and it came back in a little ANACS EF-45 white slab and I paid him just over $1,000 for it. If it had come back AU, I would have paid him the price, but at the time, I knew my grading was correct. </p><p><br /></p><p>Today the coin is in an NGC AU-55 slab. Whatever grade you might want to put on it, here it is. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1253877[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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