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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1642396, member: 4626&quot;]Virtually all US commems minted since 1982 in their original packaging should get 67/68 at least anyway, and should practically be considered an error if they don&#039;t lol... I&#039;ve had a few graded for reasons of convenience and only ever had one come back worse than a 68 (and that I&#039;m not entirely sure wasn&#039;t damaged by a previous owner taking it out of the capsule for some reason).</p><p><br /></p><p>HSN is a terrible place to get coins; they overcharge on everything.&nbsp; It&#039;s almost funny to watch until you think of all the people turned off on the hobby after finding out that they got ripped off.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve only got one &quot;perfect&quot; (well MS 70 isn&#039;t truly perfect btw, it&#039;s just as close as you can get) grade, a 2013 silver Chinese Panda.&nbsp; I can see the allure (and agree with the grade in this case, just can&#039;t find anything wrong anywhere on it), although to be honest I&#039;ve looked very closely at some 69&#039;s and sometimes even 68&#039;s and I can&#039;t tell the difference (68&#039;s I can find the defects with a magnifying glass usually, but many 69&#039;s I honestly can&#039;t see how they didn&#039;t get a 70).&nbsp; Basically my advice to collectors is, if you can&#039;t see the difference, don&#039;t pay for the difference!</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. Just thought of another good reason to get coins graded even if they&#039;d not otherwise be worth it; it&#039;s a good way to learn to grade yourself, by giving you coins to compare and see how they grade.&nbsp; I know some people that try to put together &quot;reference sets&quot;; they take a given type of coin, and try to find it in a range of grades so they have a basis of comparison (buying a book of grading standards is probably a cheaper way to do this lol but I can see how it would be useful to have a physical coin to compare it to).&nbsp; Moderns I have a harder time justifying this though, but I do like looking at my graded commems to try to figure out how it got the grade it did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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