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<p>[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3449177, member: 78244"]Well, in the Heritage archives, there was another PCGS MS-63 1796 quarter that sold for $40000 more over 3 years. Same coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really don’t understand your point. So are you trying to say that there is really no net upward trend in price for higher-end slabbed US coins (exceptions being top-pop moderns and commons)? For someone who is such a PCGS fanboy, would you not like to promote the fact that higher-end slabbed US coins have appreciated more in the past 25 years than most other coin types? Or is it because that because such a statement occurred in an anti-slab thread and you have to counter anything said that was remotely anti-slabs, factual or not?</p><p><br /></p><p>My intent was that slabbing would not be the end of the ancient coin market as we know it, just as it did not for US coins. The only areas that saw major changes in the US coin market were in the high end of the value spectrum (>$5000), and that generally does not affect most collectors. If slabs took over ancient coins as well (and they most likely won’t), I’d predict the same thing would happen, and it would not be the end times scenario some think would happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this not the rational view that you want collectors to have? If so, then why are you attacking it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TypeCoin971793, post: 3449177, member: 78244"]Well, in the Heritage archives, there was another PCGS MS-63 1796 quarter that sold for $40000 more over 3 years. Same coin. I really don’t understand your point. So are you trying to say that there is really no net upward trend in price for higher-end slabbed US coins (exceptions being top-pop moderns and commons)? For someone who is such a PCGS fanboy, would you not like to promote the fact that higher-end slabbed US coins have appreciated more in the past 25 years than most other coin types? Or is it because that because such a statement occurred in an anti-slab thread and you have to counter anything said that was remotely anti-slabs, factual or not? My intent was that slabbing would not be the end of the ancient coin market as we know it, just as it did not for US coins. The only areas that saw major changes in the US coin market were in the high end of the value spectrum (>$5000), and that generally does not affect most collectors. If slabs took over ancient coins as well (and they most likely won’t), I’d predict the same thing would happen, and it would not be the end times scenario some think would happen. Is this not the rational view that you want collectors to have? If so, then why are you attacking it?[/QUOTE]
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