Understood. However, Are we talking about collecting coins, or pedigree? Or autographs?
Imagine some dealers start xyz coin grading service and also have a sales biz. No conflict there right? Suppose the
TPG graded Goodacre dollars are not the best. Someone shows up with one that is say ms69-70, but not pedigree. Possible that if those dealers get that non pedigree coin that it could make its way into a Goodacre slab? How about you or me? Same thing?
If the market is going to claim a pedigree for this coin, it seems only fair that the consumers have a right to be informed as to the true pop of this coin and to have their coins properly attributed also. A goodacre dollar by any other name is still a goodacre dollar as it is very different from a normal MS... Superior strike, burnished planchet (usually), special rinse and handling, ect. How about the folks that sent in Goodacre coins and had them mislabled? What about crackouts and attempted upgrades?
So just who was the great mastermind behind all of this marketing anyhow? How did ICG get to grade all of these coins and why not without assigning numerical grades? At $1000.00 for a ms67, the public may be better off buying rare coins, not marketing hype. Autograph collectors excepted. Pop 5500?, me thinks maybe not. Who should the public believe, the
TPG's, the dealers, or maybe the mint and the coins themselves. If called a Goodacre slabed dollar, well that is one thing. To expect the public to accept some self vested others to determine a fine line and call the ones they chose (marketing) by and unto themselves, Goodacre dollars, is quite another. Thanx. Gusp
Posted 07/08/2006 08:57 am
