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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 35208, member: 1886&quot;]For the last five years I&#039;ve been collecting in the style of Sun Tzu better known for &quot;The Art of War.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; There are 4,291 books at amazon under &quot;the Art of War&quot; and many of them are how Sun Tzu&#039;s theories fit in other applications, especailly business.&nbsp; There doesn&#039;t seem to be a volume on the Art of War for coin collecting (how did Dave Bowers miss that? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)&nbsp; so I thought up some of my own. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Market Grading is my enemy.&nbsp; In Sun Tzu lingo I believe it would also be what he called &quot;climate&quot; or the conditions that you have little or no control over.&nbsp; It would also be, IMO, be what he called terrain. There&#039;s hard terrain and easy terrain. This board is terrain--easy for some harder for others. It would also be a fortification to a troll&nbsp; should one&nbsp; show up and try to flame all of us. He most likely would get&nbsp; slaughtered for his efforts. Or perhaps, chucked out by the moderators before things got ugly.&nbsp; </p><p>&quot;The worst is to attack the enemy&#039;s cities.&quot;&nbsp; Sun Tzu&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In many ways I find that Market Grading is a fortification, lousy terrain,</p><p>lousy climate and an enemy that is *much* stronger than me.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&quot;Defend when you have insufficient strength to win.&quot;&nbsp; Sun Tzu </p><p><br /></p><p>Now,&nbsp; I don&#039;t want the Sunny man riding up in a chariot in my dreams and screaming:&nbsp; </p><p>&quot;YOUR METHODS ARE DUNG BEETLE!&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, my idea of defense is finding something I like outside of mainstream. Something where the terrain and climate is too difficult for the grading companies--such as exonumia.&nbsp; There are hundreds of different exonumia collecting areas many of which don&#039;t really have enough collectors to be worth the grading companies&nbsp; effort.&nbsp; It&#039;s all too spread out. Take a look at how many volumes there are just for tokens in the ANA&#039;s library.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Some field positions are too spread out.</p><p>Your force my seem equal to the enemy. </p><p>Still you will lose if you provoke a battle.</p><p>[ Especially&nbsp; with casino chip collectors <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ] </p><p>If you fight you will not have any advantage.&quot;&nbsp; Sun Tzu</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The grading companies and market grading might make some small progress into tokens and medals and probably have but in the long run I believe it is hopeless for them.&nbsp; And what is hopeless for my enemy is hopeful for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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