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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 558867, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Is anyone surprised by this at all?????????????????????</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Is anyone surprised by this at all?????????????????????</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I once had a vision:::</p><p>One day in the not to distant future there was a coin, a lovely chestnut brown 1803 Lg. cent in VF-35 that remained as a raw coin for all to hold and truly see it&#039;s beauty - it was the last coin on earth that had not been graded and entombed in plastic.&nbsp; The gods of grading ABCD-VP300X88 company decided since it was the last coin on earth that remained raw they would have to get it and encapsulate before it&#039;s value was realized. </p><p>You see, as a raw coin it&#039;s value ungraded was more than it&#039;s rival other large cents even in higher, &quot;so called grades and entombed&quot; already.</p><p>They formed a cartel, a syndicate, a collusion and forced the owner of the chestnut large cent to surrender his coin.</p><p>Now all coins were properly entombed and forever finally graded, &quot;the right way&quot; - this led to many things the grading company could have never dreamed would happen.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1.&nbsp; There was no more excitement, no challenge in finding a coin that was struck nicer or had more luster or some variety.</p><p>2.&nbsp; There was no Cherry Picking, you see all coins had been designated and were forever locked in plastic.</p><p>3. The Mint had all there collector coins graded by the gods even before they sold them.</p><p>4.&nbsp; There was no more circulated coinage, our society had learn to only use credit and debit cards and instant recognition plus thumbprint techknowlgy.</p><p>5.&nbsp; Coin Collectors began to lose interest in collecting because all questions of authenticity and grade were already answered.</p><p>6.&nbsp; The unthinkable happened everybody sold all their coins back to the mint or the gods at grading companies everywhere for cents on the dollar and<b> coin collecting died, simple as that</b>.&nbsp; I mean what is the use if every sandwich tastes the same, every car looks the same every store sells the same goods.&nbsp; We celebrate Christmas up to Christmas eve and then it&#039;s dead.&nbsp; We sell summer cloths until Memorial day and then as fashion must dictate we start the fall season before the first day of summer.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In essence we vanilla everything so as to have no more surprises and we pay the price - ultimate boredom and loss of interest and people lay down and die from being bored - I mean why live in a world were nothing is a surprise, there is no uncertainty, no mystery, no anticipation?&nbsp; What then will we do?</p><p>It makes me sad![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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