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Pillar of the Community
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Well, as they say about horses, "You can lead them to water ..."
In the mean time you need to learn about grading and think for yourself. The acid test is when you try sell a coin and see what happens. It doesn't matter much what the grading service says at that point unless you are selling the over graded coin at a deep discount under Gray Sheet bid. Just because two grading services have rendered an opinion does not make it right.
One of things that both PCGS and NGC did very early in the game was to water down the standards for circulated coins. They once were more strict with the Mint State grades because that was where the high dollar abuses were when those companies were founded. Now they are getting lose with them too.
And yes, I'll emphasize the point. That PCGS flyer you posted in VF-30 is way over graded. Corrosion spots do matter, especially if they are active, those spots might be. Maybe they have formed after the coin was slabbed, but if they didn't, they missed it.
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02/14/2017 10:59 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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Well, as they about horses, "You can lead them to water ..."
In the mean time you need to learn about grading and think for yourself. Really intetesting that you say you want me to think for myself, and at the same time want me to agree with you with that water and horses comment. Confused about what the advice is here really. I think I will go with door number 2 and learn about grading and think for myself as I always have. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well, go out and try to sell some coins. That's the way I learned when I was a teenager. My point is don't believe everything the services tell you about a specific coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I think your advice is 100% correct. You shouldn't rely on TPG opinions. I have come here with many slabbed coins to get folks' opinions about the grade. I think your repeated accusations that I blindly follow the TPG grade without exercising my own judgment because you disagree with the grade on the slab are unfounded. If you had instead said that I am a terrible grader, and that I don't know what I am doing, well then you may have a point.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
02/14/2017 1:52 pm
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AU-58 for me, very nice..  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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It's no secret that PCGS and NGC are terrible at grading FEC's and IHC's, Rick Snow has published plenty of articles with many detailed examples of how they are butchering the grading on a daily basis. Using their images as a grading guide for the two series is like expecting to become a fleet admiral in the Navy just by playing Battleship. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Can we at least agree that the coin in the original post is not VF35? I also find PCGS photograde to be an excellent grading resource that has largely replaced grading coin sets. PCGS is not perfect and you can always find examples of mistakes. For the most part, I think they get it right and deserve to be the market grading standard.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would recommend a later edition ANA grading guide with photos of the coins. I have also heard that the grading book by Q. David Bowers is quite good. The last PCGS grading guide that I bought only had photos of some of the coins, not all. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I think the reason for the incomplete PCGS print photos may be because they, like everything else is moving to online and app resources. Makes it easier to update on the fly and tons of information is at your fingertips.
I think complete 3D imaging of all three surfaces of coins and unique identification of coins via algorithmic rendering of 3D images will come soon. When this comes, it will be much more difficult to pass off counterfeits, double count resubmitted coins, and computers will grade coins based on much more exact measures.
Lots of old problems will be solved and I am sure many new ones will pop up.
Fun times to come.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
02/15/2017 1:49 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Perhaps there is a new PCGS grading guide, but the one I have was published in 2004. My take is that they didn't publish pictures of all the coins because they didn't want to commit themselves to rigid standards. It seems like it's best to keep most collectors guessing. I was just looking at the photos for grading Indian cents. It's interesting to note that I would agree with their photographic standards in the Fine and VF grades. Yet if you have ever shopped for a key date, like an 1877 Indian cent, the vast majority, but not quite all, won't have a full "LIBERTY" on them, even in VF-25 or 30. It would be nice for collectors if they would apply their standards to ALL of the coins and not just the common dates. As for publishing pictures of graded coins on the Web, there are loads of them on the "Coin Facts" website. This site is free and totally accessible to anyone who uses the Internet. This is an outstanding source of U.S. numismatic information and should a "favorite" for all U.S. coin collectors. Some of their pictures show some inconsistent grading standards, but buy in large they display the best of the PCGS product. I don't why they would open a new site with coin pictures on it in addition to "Coin Facts." |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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PCGS coinfacts is indeed a great site and resource. But it doesn't show an image for the coin in every grade category. Photograde does. I think using both is best as they complement one another. I am sure that they will at one point be merged into one site as the PCGS acquisition of coinfacts is consolidated. I am also sure that their price guides, sales and auction records and registry records will all be merged into one seamless tool.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1499 Posts |
PCGS founded "Coin Facts;" they didn't merge with it. It was a site that cost you about $110 a year to access before they made it free. I know because I was paying them for it from the time of its opening.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I am not generally aware of who owns what and if I made a mistake, thank you for correcting it. I was going on the fact that coinfacts has rebranded their site to PCGS coinfacts and upgraded and reorganized the content. I am sure more useful changes will come about in the future.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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