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Man that's embarassing.
Posted 03/09/2008 11:21 am
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I have not yet reached the point where I want to sell any of them. Maybe when I shift to SELL mode I will consider grading.
There's nothing wrong with your thinking. It worked for the first 150 years of numismatics, and it works today. There are plenty of collectors who are perfectly capable of drawing their own conclusions about coins, even in a photograph-only environment like ebay. Furthermore, they are still the majority in most classes of collecting between the VF and MS stage - one can effectively sell decent coins if properly pictured. Not to blow my own horn, but I have no problem, given the kind of pictures I take, with getting respectable prices for raw coins on ebay.
But if I were selling Mint State gold, or Registry-level coins, or Proofs out of the original packaging, or errors, I would be absolutely certain to employ respectable slabs as a business tool.
So, like everything I say (
), there's an exception to the rule. Hone your photography skills to the point where the quality of your coins is obvious, speak about them truthfully in the sale, and back them up with an unconditional warranty, and you can sell whatever you want, wherever you want to. It's another illustration of the wonderful variety of our hobby - there's no one right way to do it.
