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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tommyc03, post: 1240148, member: 17665&quot;]It&#039;s pet peeve time. Sorry but I have to vent. Nothing in my collecting years has become more irritating than the refusal of certain dealer to be honest in their advertizing. Specifically I am talking about terms. Such as P.Q. ( premium quality), C.U. ( choice uncirculated), and mixed grades, ie., Good/Very/Good, etc. which means obverse and reverse grades. Many of these dealers are heavy advertizers in Numismatic News and other like publications. And yes, I have tried them out. Often P.Q.- B.U. is usually a slider coming in at A.U. if you are lucky and many of these coins, especially coppers, are actually cleaned or buffed coins being sold at their real B.U. values. My advice now is to stay away! I now deal with only one dealer in Shawnee Mission, Ks. who has for me been the &quot;Real Deal&quot; dealer. He has no fancy big box ads or attitude, just properly graded coins. As for the mixed grade coins, I also stay away from these as in the end when you do finally sell your buyer is only going to pay for the lower of the two grades. The sheldon system is a gimmick also, intended only to hyper inflate coin values. I&#039;m sure in the beginning it was probably an honest attempt to justify better grades properly but it has been abused so often that it is no longer any use to the average collector. The same goes for a CAC designation. If you don&#039;t trust your third party grader then what are you having your coins graded for unless you are trying to inflate the values of your own coins?! Thanks for listening.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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