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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 24843132, member: 10461&quot;]I no longer focus much on grading and leave that to PCGS and NGC.&nbsp; As long as the coin gets a straight (problem-free) grade, the Sheldon scale number doesn&#039;t matter so much to me.&nbsp; Of course I do have some grading knowledge to fall back on.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Eye appeal</i> is what counts to me.&nbsp; Descriptive grading was more important to me back in the old sight-unseen mail-order days, but nowadays, just show me a good set of photos and let me judge from those, if I don&#039;t have the coin in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>It basically boils down to two grades for me: yes or no.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Internet really revolutionized my collecting, since I live in something of a numismatic backwater (no local dealer), and I don&#039;t get out to shows much.&nbsp; In the bad old days, even when one got a sight-unseen mail-order coin that was correctly graded, it still might be ugly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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