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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5158524, member: 101855"]No one is denigrating what these people collect, [USER=27579]@Virginian[/USER]. What they are questioning is the wisdom of paying very high prices for very common coins because they push up collectors’ standings in a registry that is run by a company that is also the referee. </p><p><br /></p><p>Collectors are free to spend their money the way they please, but it doesn’t hurt to have some experienced people give some perspective to what you are doing. Most collectors can’t tell the difference between a PR-69 and a PR-70. I’ll go out on limb and say that there is no difference in some cases, especially when standards are changing constantly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5158524, member: 101855"]No one is denigrating what these people collect, [USER=27579]@Virginian[/USER]. What they are questioning is the wisdom of paying very high prices for very common coins because they push up collectors’ standings in a registry that is run by a company that is also the referee. Collectors are free to spend their money the way they please, but it doesn’t hurt to have some experienced people give some perspective to what you are doing. Most collectors can’t tell the difference between a PR-69 and a PR-70. I’ll go out on limb and say that there is no difference in some cases, especially when standards are changing constantly.[/QUOTE]
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