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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1110675, member: 27832&quot;]Well, I don&#039;t know how good you are at grading, but... no, actually, not &quot;but&quot;. If I&#039;ve never met you, never seen how you grade coins, and don&#039;t know what interest (if any) you have in grading a coin high or low, how much weight <i>should</i> I attach to your grading? How much should you attach to mine?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for &quot;what makes them better than you at grading your coins&quot;, I&#039;d say it&#039;s massive practice, procedures for quality control, and objectivity (they stand to gain nothing by inflating or deflating a coin&#039;s grade, and stand to lose their reputation by doing so).</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, grading contains a subjective component. That means it&#039;s risky to trust <i>any</i> one person (or company) to grade a coin. I don&#039;t know a way to avoid that risk.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for &quot;coins are meant to be held, adored and examined&quot;, well, I&#039;d say most coins are &quot;meant&quot; to be <i>spent</i>, and it&#039;s only our shared mental disorder that leads us to make them objects of desire. If your particular perversion drives you to preserve a coin forever as it is now, slabbing it makes perfect sense. If you prefer to let the coin decline gradually but inexorably into a featureless lump of metal, then by all means, handle it as much as you can.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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