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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 802193, member: 112&quot;]Sure they have. They don&#039;t use the same guys who grade the US coins to grade the hammered coins. They use people who are recognized experts on hammered coins. Guys who have studied them all their lives, giuys who have written all of the books &amp; articles you read about hammered coins. The guys who grade the hammered coins eat, sleep and breathe hammered coins. They have held more of them than any museum curator there is.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You don&#039;t have to have held an MS70 to judge the grade of a coin. You just have to have the experience and knowledge. You have to have held lots and lots of examples, in various grades, right in your hand and studied them. Then you can assign a grade to the given coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of the coins I posted pictures of are in museums. They all used to be owned by me. And today they are owned by other collectors. They aren&#039;t in museums. In fact the finest examples of world coins, especially the hammered coins, are not in museums at all. They are owned by private collectors. Take a look at these - this entire collection is owned by a member here on this forum - silvereagle82 - <a href="http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/ViewPersonalCollection.aspx?Tab=list&amp;UserCollectionID=418" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/ViewPersonalCollection.aspx?Tab=list&amp;UserCollectionID=418" rel="nofollow">http://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/ViewPersonalCollection.aspx?Tab=list&amp;UserCollectionID=418</a> - click on the link and look at the coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have more catalogs of famous hammered coins that were owned by private collectors than you can shake a stick at. Museums would be all over themselves just for the chance to own some of these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Siggi I used to own some hammered coins that museums don&#039;t even have examples of. I can think of two other people right here on this forum that own some hammered coins the museums don&#039;t have. Coin where the books say only 2 - 4 examples even exist today. Conrad and I have proven the books wrong in some cases. One coin in particular, the books say 2 known examples - Conrad and I have attributed 5 of them in the past few years. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s where you&#039;re making your mistake Siggi - you are making false assumptions. I can understand why. Many people just don&#039;t realize the quality of some coin collections - because they&#039;ve never seen them. They don&#039;t study them like I do, or like Conrad (silvereagle82) does. But they ARE out there. And they are truly amazing. And they can be graded easily enough, by those with the experience and knowledge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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