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<p>[QUOTE="teosandra, post: 2930249, member: 86750"]"RIP Life Savings..."? Good grief Charlie Brown. That's dramatic! Anyone who puts their life savings...well, let's move on. </p><p><br /></p><p>From the buy-the-coin-not-the-slab dept: I'm a collector and not a dealer or investor. One of the collections I'm building out is a set of Frankie 65-FBLs (except the 53S...not paying that much for a coin). I use the 65 FBL for filtering purposes but in the end, I'm buying the coin. As was mentioned, PCGS is worse than NGC (and ANACS) for FBLs because they only look at lower lines. I eliminate most PCGS 65s for this alone. Even if all of the lines are solid, I might be turned off by ugly toning or some other factor for that particular coin. That being said, I recently paid over PCGS and Numismedia market value for a 52S 64FBL because it was gorgeous and clean even with the noticeable flaw that made it a 64. I personally preferred that coin over many of the 65FBL 52Ss I've seen. In the end, buying Frankies (as a collector) is no different than buying many things...What am I willing to pay for something I want at that moment in time? There is no wrong answer if it makes me happy. </p><p><br /></p><p>To me, it seems PCGS is correcting their prices down from the highs of a few years ago but I'll defer to you all on that. I'd hate to be the person responsible for assigning one number for so many coins that may have the same technical grade but vary so much aesthetically (eye of the beholder and all) and range in prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="teosandra, post: 2930249, member: 86750"]"RIP Life Savings..."? Good grief Charlie Brown. That's dramatic! Anyone who puts their life savings...well, let's move on. From the buy-the-coin-not-the-slab dept: I'm a collector and not a dealer or investor. One of the collections I'm building out is a set of Frankie 65-FBLs (except the 53S...not paying that much for a coin). I use the 65 FBL for filtering purposes but in the end, I'm buying the coin. As was mentioned, PCGS is worse than NGC (and ANACS) for FBLs because they only look at lower lines. I eliminate most PCGS 65s for this alone. Even if all of the lines are solid, I might be turned off by ugly toning or some other factor for that particular coin. That being said, I recently paid over PCGS and Numismedia market value for a 52S 64FBL because it was gorgeous and clean even with the noticeable flaw that made it a 64. I personally preferred that coin over many of the 65FBL 52Ss I've seen. In the end, buying Frankies (as a collector) is no different than buying many things...What am I willing to pay for something I want at that moment in time? There is no wrong answer if it makes me happy. To me, it seems PCGS is correcting their prices down from the highs of a few years ago but I'll defer to you all on that. I'd hate to be the person responsible for assigning one number for so many coins that may have the same technical grade but vary so much aesthetically (eye of the beholder and all) and range in prices.[/QUOTE]
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