Do you foresee an upcoming slab NUMBER consideration?

topstuf

With all the NCS stuff and liberal "market" grading, I suspect that we will eventually see price differences between "PRE- such and such number" and POST such and such.

Like Winchester rifles. PRE-'64 and POST-'64.

Think that will happen?

clevegreg

It's been going on for quite awhile.

mirabela

Yes. Not only that, I see a growing awareness that <gasp> people who buy coins should be confident in their own grading skills.

topstuf

<< <i><gasp> people who buy coins should be confident in their own grading skills. >>



Yes....but.....ain't gonna happen. If the services become suspect, the coin market is ....done.

As far as being a .... "market."

It will return to being a hobby with no real "monetary" value attached. Fun for the dedicated and dropped like a hot rock by the masses. Liquidity will drop.

That's if the idea "gets out." I suspect it already is doing so.

Make a buck quick. Consistency is the bane of a grading company for turnover. For reliability it would be great, but buy a Porsche with all the reliability in your pocket.

MrEureka

Once computer grading is introduced, time-stamps on slabs will be inevitable. That's because the grading programs will continue to change/improve through the use of AI.

topstuf

<< <i>through the use of AI >>



Big conflict there, Andy. Fundamentalist numismatists are convinced of AI, but progressives are in favor of evolutionary grading.

JIHAD !!!!!!

MrEureka

Fundamentalist numismatists are convinced of AI, but progressives are in favor of evolutionary grading.

JIHAD !!!!!!


No need for jihad. It's the evolution of grading that will lead us to AI-based grading.

PhillyJoe

The search feature on Teletrade now lets you search pcgs and ngc old and new label and well as anacs old and new slab. Guess it's not about the coins anymore.

Joe

PerryHall

The major grading services can't help but change their slabs or labels every couple of years so it's fairly easy to figure out the time period when they were slabbed.

Fairlaneman

<< <i>With all the NCS stuff and liberal "market" grading, I suspect that we will eventually see price differences >>



Because of NCS junk I do not search for NGC slabbed coins anymore unless I can see them in hand. Seeing them in hand is tough when you live in the boonies. Certain PCGS blue label start numbers have been ignored and searched for regularly.

Ken

JSsson

I recall that somewhere David Hall stated that PCGS has no plans to "date" their holders.

Bear

Coin grading seems to evolve and devolve.

Rather confusing at times. A collector must

develope a personal standard of grading and

buy coins based on that standard.