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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 469371, member: 13650&quot;]From what I&#039;ve read (which was posted and deleted) the company is trying to weed out the lower end coins in general.&nbsp; They hope by cataloging all they look at by their serial numbers and by affixing their stickers, that the more premium ones will rise to the top, while a slab without the sticker will hopefully be scrutinized more, as to why it doesn&#039;t have one.&nbsp; As time goes on, they expect that most premium coins will go through their service.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; What I have trouble agreeing with is that &quot;B&quot; coins will get a green sticker as well as an &quot;A&quot; coin.&nbsp; Reason being that they think median examples that are not of low quality and/or doctored have become increasingly elusive.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;So you don&#039;t really know sight unseen if it&#039;s a B or an A, but it absolutely should not be a C.&nbsp;&nbsp; And trust me, I&#039;ve seen some bad mint state C&#039;s.&nbsp; Eye appeal is probably going to play a large role.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; An under-graded, premium high quality A will be all that gets the gold sticker.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps they should only be giving the green sticker to A quality coins?&nbsp; But maybe that would raise the price too much and they&#039;d rather have the B and A price range even out, rather than affecting price more severely?&nbsp; Plus it creates a buffer.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; At least we should know what the green sticker means now and that it actually SHOULD justify paying more for the coin as that is the whole point of the program.&nbsp; So that the nicer, properly graded ones are labeled and others simply won&#039;t be.&nbsp; Like it or not, it&#039;s fractional grading which we knew was coming, looks to be here to stay and should theoretically properly adjust prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; For everyone that&#039;s angry about it, the beauty of it is that you can still look at a stickered slab for yourself and if you don&#039;t agree with either grading service&#039;s opinion on an individual piece.........you can still PASS on it just as you would a raw coin.&nbsp; Which is why I don&#039;t see the big deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; An ungraded coin obviously, and automatically has two grade opinions.&nbsp; The seller&#039;s and the buyer&#039;s and then it&#039;s always possible that its a good counterfeit or has been cleaned and doctored.&nbsp; &nbsp; I know that&#039;s how it&#039;s always been in the past but maybe some people don&#039;t want to deal with that? </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; The dealer&#039;s always going to think their opinion is correct no matter how good of a grader you are.&nbsp; At least a dealer can&#039;t try to pass off a slabbed AU50 coin to you as a MS-60 and expect you to meet in the middle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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