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Posted 08/17/2006 6:32 pm
There are problems with both numerical and adjective grading. Adjectives are spin control and numerical offers no break down of what your paying for.
What is the purpose of grading in the first place? To describe a coin to someone who is unable to see the coin? I would submit that not only have slabs exhausted themselves, so too has grading. Many if not most can see the coin now from images--the technology of which is only going to get better. If the images are honest, IMO, you can get a far better idea of what your getting into with a decent image than a string of "monster" "atomic" "splashes of earth tones--send money." Or from a engima number.
I really, for the life of me, can't understand what it is that collectors see in slabs? You have to grade the coin yourself anyway if your going to follow the advice of "Buy the coin and not the slab." All they are really doing that is useful is authentication. They are simply making people buy BS to get something that is actually useful.
http://www.producepatch.com/cat1.jpg
What is the purpose of grading in the first place? To describe a coin to someone who is unable to see the coin? I would submit that not only have slabs exhausted themselves, so too has grading. Many if not most can see the coin now from images--the technology of which is only going to get better. If the images are honest, IMO, you can get a far better idea of what your getting into with a decent image than a string of "monster" "atomic" "splashes of earth tones--send money." Or from a engima number.
I really, for the life of me, can't understand what it is that collectors see in slabs? You have to grade the coin yourself anyway if your going to follow the advice of "Buy the coin and not the slab." All they are really doing that is useful is authentication. They are simply making people buy BS to get something that is actually useful.
http://www.producepatch.com/cat1.jpg
Edited by longnine009
08/17/2006 6:37 pm
08/17/2006 6:37 pm
