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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 3346651, member: 39084&quot;]At the risk of seeming to pile on, I&#039;m going to weigh in on this topic too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone collecting ancient coins who seriously regards a coin&#039;s grade as something other than a curiosity is primarily an investor or speculator, not a collector.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t matter whether this grade is from NGC, a dealer, an auction house, etc.&nbsp; In this era of high-quality online digital pictures, true <i>collectors</i> can assess far more from these pictures than from any level of grading.&nbsp; Viewing the coin in-hand is the only way to do better than a high-quality picture.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The key word here is &quot;buyers.&quot;&nbsp; Doug&#039;s &quot;buyers&quot; are not collectors in the sense of the word as we use it on this site, so TIF&#039;s statement about collectors is accurate, while Doug&#039;s statement about buyers is also accurate.&nbsp; These are two different sets of people.</p><p><br /></p><p>A final observation: the vast majority of coins posted on this site are not accompanied by a grade of that coin&#039;s condition, unless that coin happens to be in a slab.&nbsp; I never post grades for my coins, for the simple reason that the grade is irrelevant, as it is for most of the coins posted by <i>collectors </i>on this site.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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