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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mark_h, post: 324653, member: 3726&quot;]1. If you want examples I would personally buy graded coins to look at. And yes I like PCGS and NGC best for grading, then ANACs and ICG.&nbsp; And yes I did this also after I thought I knew how to grade - I bought raw coins that I liked.&nbsp; I still ended up with some cleaned coins and sometimes pictures on ebay are deceiving, especially when the cleaning is slight.&nbsp; Even then I used my local dealer to help me learn with these coins.&nbsp; Even then I revisited the raw coins often and might change my grade as I went along. So to me buying graded coins will help you keep from making mistakes, without knowing buying raw coins could hurt more.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. I would not buy these coins and using ebay you will probably get some.&nbsp; In some cases it is easy to line up graded morgans and place a raw coin between them and tell the raw coin has been cleaned. And yes my father has a couple of cleaned morgans that I really like anyway.&nbsp; My local dealer helped us with by lining up coins and pointing things out to us.&nbsp; It was a learning experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; Without seeing the coin I can&#039;t make comments.&nbsp; I do know this if my local dealer buys a coin, he will place a price on it. That price will stay there for months even if the coin does not move.&nbsp; Plus maybe your dealer knew it was not choice for the grade and thus discounted.&nbsp; Did you ask him why it was only 350 versus the current market?&nbsp; I asked on several coins at my local dealer - he told me they were not excellent examples of the grade so priced them accordingly. I snatched a 1798 large cent for 30 bucks one day - problem free, just weak date and real worn on the reverse - I have watched worse coins go for double or triple that on ebay.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>4,5,6 Good answers.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can&#039;t tell I think I have a pretty good relationship with the local dealer here and they are always willing to help me learn.&nbsp; From what I could tell on the picture I thought AU55 to MS63.&nbsp; And one other thing I do on ebay - even for slabbed coins - if I can not grade the coin from the pictures, or the pictures look off, I skip the auction.&nbsp; I know I probably miss some nice coins, but like you said another will be along. OOPs - I almost forgot, I also check some dealers I like - if I could get a graded coin for 60 including shipping from one of the dealers, I always keep my bids under that. Just my opinions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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