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Fantasy time: What would you rather be, a PCGS grader or a coin dealer?

SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭✭
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And both positions pay exactly the same.......
Why.....???
Collecting since 1976.

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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    If those are the only choices, and they pay the same, I will choose being a grader. Of course, I am not good enough but with enough time I would be. And I would see all the cool coins. As a dealer, you see some cool coins, but as a grader you see more. And a dealer will always wine and dine a grader at a show to lobby the grader to grade favorably. image

    Neil
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  • WondoWondo Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭
    I would much rather be a dealer. Grading coins all day would make me wacko; I can't believe there would be enough time to enjoy them. Plus, how many 1964 proofs can one look at. I'm sure that would be somebody's hell!!! A dealer is tough, but at least you would get to talk to people (jerks and all).
    Wondo

  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Dealer, hands down. I could never go back to working for somebody else.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,417 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have better fantasies than those 2 choices......image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • docday2003docday2003 Posts: 1,100
    If there was a salary attached to the job, then a dealer. A dealer doesn't have to work, they just schmooze the public!, and play with fancy coins. A grader has to slave all day, and his mistakes are out there for the whole world to laugh at. On the other hand, in real life I would rather be a grader, since a dealer has to work his butt off to make sure he can pay his bills - and there is no salary. JMO
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I lean to dealer,by a nose.Dreaming of buying estate hoards and finding all those goodiesimage,Naw just a good engraverimageimage.Al
  • ANACONDAANACONDA Posts: 4,692 ✭
    Handle other people's coins all day long determining what level of preservation they're in much like a grader of eggs or potatos

    compared to

    competing in the marketplace using your wits and skill to do buy and sell and learn about coins while dealing with other humans of a constantly varying variety?

    Gee, that's a toughie.

  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Weeellllll, between the two above choices, the little bear would rather....................................................

    ...............................................................................................stay retired.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,575 ✭✭✭
    Dealer, I like to travel, look at coins, and talk to people, and talking with a raw coin in your hand is a very bad idea.
    Greg Allen Coins, LLC Show Schedule: https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/573044/our-show-schedule-updated-10-2-16 Authorized dealer for NGC, PCGS, CAC, and QA. Member of PNG, RTT (Founding Platinum Member), FUN, MSNS, and NCBA (formerly ICTA); Life Member of ANA and CSNS. NCBA Board member. "GA3" on CCE.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Especially if you salivate and spray a lot when you talk.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage

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