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<p>[QUOTE="AncientJoe, post: 4544079, member: 44357"]These tactics are annoying and just marketing. There are also some people who regularly comment on how some auction houses "under grade" coins... again, a marketing tactic (and grades don't really matter when coins are photographed as long as any problems are disclosed).</p><p><br /></p><p>If I started an auction house, I'd estimate every lot at $0.0001 and grade every coin "worse than poor; just melt it" and send marketing blasts when my lots sell for millions of times the estimate and get into XF or better holders![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AncientJoe, post: 4544079, member: 44357"]These tactics are annoying and just marketing. There are also some people who regularly comment on how some auction houses "under grade" coins... again, a marketing tactic (and grades don't really matter when coins are photographed as long as any problems are disclosed). If I started an auction house, I'd estimate every lot at $0.0001 and grade every coin "worse than poor; just melt it" and send marketing blasts when my lots sell for millions of times the estimate and get into XF or better holders![/QUOTE]
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