Anyone planning to participate?

DAM

This sounds fun.

egsantos

For sure that will be funny.

melikecoins

I'd like to just to see if David would give me a job
But fifty bucks, where am I going to get that kind of money

Glen

merz2

I would do it if I could grade Lincolns exclusively.

dpoole

This looks like a clever way to scare out more potential graders for PCGS.

Corrected to add:

Oops. Looks like Homerhall anticipated my suspicion, and denied it! (Though I didn't see anything at all wrong with the idea)

haletj

I need some more years of learning, then it would be fun and I would seriously consider it!

segoja

It would be great, but $50. That sounds like an expensive proposition.

Will htye use today's standards or those from last year.

Seems the grading could be all over the board!

Cocoinut

I'd like to participate, and I'll be at the FUN show, but I don't know if I'll be able to make it to the summer ANA in Pittsburgh. Does anyone know the dates? (And what do you do in Pittsburgh if there's not a coin show?)

I've been at it for a long time; for a few years worked for a dealer, and had to grade coins for sale. When PCGS came along, I thought my grading was closer to their standards than to a lot of the dealers at that time. The toughest ones to grade IMO are the pre 1836 issues, and modern MS/PR 67 and above.

It would be fun, and possibly very humbling.

Jim

kranky

The Pittsburgh ANA is August 18-22, 2004.

I will forgive you your ignorance of what there is to do in Pittsburgh.

DAM

<< <i>It would be fun, and possibly very humbling. >>


If you went into it with that attitude, you are certain to come out a winner, regardless of the outcome.

I wish I could participate. Although I know my skills aren't world class, I would enjoy the challenge.

Cocoinut

Kranky,

Thanks for giving the dates. I was hoping it would be earlier in the month; it'll be hard for me to take time off work the week of the convention.

I know Pittsburgh has undergone a renaissance of sorts, similar to my native Cleveland, and that it's shed its "rust belt" image. I'll bet the air is lot cleaner than it was 30 years ago too, if the steel mills have shut down as they did in Cleveland. It's just that it has been a long time since I was there, and if I were to go to the ANA, I'd want to see and do other things too.


Jim

Robgetty

I'd be more willing if there was a guarantee that no one would see what my
guesses were (wouldn't want anyone to hurt themselves laughing!)

DAM

<< <i>I'd be more willing if there was a guarantee that no one would see what my guesses were (wouldn't want anyone to hurt themselves laughing!) >>

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