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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 4702095, member: 44357&quot;]I was in the process of writing this same reply but [USER=39084]@IdesOfMarch01[/USER] beat me to it. A large part of why I lost interest in collecting US coinage was because the conversation moved away from the coins themselves and just into the grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers and collectors constantly talk about how their coins are undergraded - it&#039;s infuriating: talk about the coins, not the grades! It&#039;s equally frustrating to hear about PCGS vs NGC vs CAC vs ABC vs DEFG.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then they complain when &quot;grade-inflation&quot; happens but clearly the grading services are just monetizing the fact that everyone wants their coins in a higher holder. Soon it&#039;ll be a 100-500 scale instead of 1-70.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand and appreciate grading as an extra layer of authenticity verification and a check against unscrupulous dealers but the US side of the market has taken it to the n-th degree where everyone is just trading barcodes and I hope ancients don&#039;t follow suit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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