Do you think coin-grading is to expensive? You have to put yourself in someone's shoes that's never collected before, someone that is actually new to the hobby. When growing the hobby, you have to bring new young hungry collectors to replace the old hungry collectors. In order to do that, you have to bring interest to the hobby and get people drawn in. How do we do that? Simple, money. Coin-roll hunting is about the only way someone starting out that doesn't have a lot of money to play with. The collectibles and old coins are out of the question because of price, which limits you down to a small variety of coins you can afford to collect in the beginning, Lincoln cents being number one. What good is roll-hunting if you can't afford to get the coin graded? Even if your not a kid it can get expensive. I think that "coin-grading" is currently to controversial for people to risk or spend there money doing. Way to many holes in the system to be 100% trusted. Tell me what you think??
Citeer: "kcoins82"What good is roll-hunting if you can't afford to get the coin graded? Even if your not a kid it can get expensive. I think that "coin-grading" is currently to controversial for people to risk or spend there money doing. Way to many holes in the system to be 100% trusted. Tell me what you think??
I'm sorry but I don't understand why you have to get a coin graded? Especially a modern circulating coin you can find in coin rolls? I have to admit I don't collect US coins but if I started something like a lincoln cent collection I wouldn't even think about getting the coins in it graded, in my opinion it's pointless.
I view professional coin grading and slabbing as an American obsession, as far as I can tell it isn't nearly as popular or important in Europe. Some members of my coin club have been collecting coins for 30+ years and don't have a single slabbed coin.
Personally I consider getting a coin graded a waste of money and would consider doing it only for very high value, commonly faked, coins. Most collectors will never even see a coin like that.
I really don't think the cost of coin grading is getting in the way of new collectors entering the hobby.
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Yes, you grade all your coins but you don't get all your coins graded ie by experts. kcoins82 is referring to having and paying for inexpensive and common coins like Lincoln cents graded by experts.
Yes, you grade all your coins but you don't get all your coins graded ie by experts. kcoins82 is referring to having and paying for inexpensive and common coins like Lincoln cents graded by experts.
After more than 50 years experience grading coins I reckon I'd be happy to compare skills with these experts.
Every collector should make learning to grade a priority. Simply farming the task out to third parties is a cop out. Now that the Chinese are pumping out fake slabs for their fake coins, the crutch of giving a pile of money for some anonymous expert to tell you how nice your coins are may fade into a betamax-like oblivion. I hope so.
Please Europe, don't go down the US path, stick with descriptive grades and unslabbed coins. You won't regret it.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
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Topic verplaatst naar "Numismatic questions"(ZacUK, 30-apr-2020, 20:52)
Citeer After more than 50 years experience grading coins I reckon I'd be happy to compare skills with these experts.
Please Europe, don't go down the US path, stick with descriptive grades and unslabbed coins. You won't regret it.
Although I'm born and raised in the U.S. I agree. I prefer to find unslabbed and ungraded coins. Buy the coin and not the slab should be everybodys mantra as professional graders are human too and often make errors in judgement. I believe chasing slabbed coins is a rich man's game and not worth the premium you pay in many cases. After more than 55 years of collecting and possessing thousands of coins, I only have a few that are truly worthy of the slab and I have found many beautiful specimens. The truly rare, exceptional, or valuable are the only coins I will send off for grading and sometimes you just need the second opinion for being authentic. I simply use the professional grading tools to sharpen my own grading skills on the U.S. based Sheldon scale. I find this site very helpful for U.S. coins. https://www.pcgs.com/photograde
I agree with everyone above. There is no reason to have common circulation coins graded. The only reason why I would consider a graded coin, and I was buying an expensive coin on-line that I wanted to be certain wasn't clean or fake.
