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Have you ever bought a coin to upgrade a set... and then found it looked WORSE than the coin it repl

lclugzalclugza Posts: 568 ✭✭
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Have you ever bought a coin for the purposes of upgrading your Registry Set... and then found it looked WORSE than the lower graded coin it replaced?
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,776 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I haven't had that happen yet but I did have an upgrade look NO DIFFERENT than the coin it replaced. (Yes, even under magnification!)

    peacockcoins

  • osirisMMIIosirisMMII Posts: 225
    Definitely YES!!!! Several early Jefferson proofs including one that I just sent back to a major well respected dealer/auctioneer. I also have a number of Kennedy proofs - 69DCAMs that were graded before PCGS gave out 70s which are nicer than a lot of 70s I've owned. Grading isn't exact - it's more like a starting point and it's what we have until something better (?) comes along. I figure buying graded coins (PCGS/NGC) makes my purchases 95% less risky - gives me a pretty good idea what I can expect.
    ahhhh....... SODO MELVIN?????
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    That's why I don't own a Proof 70. It is a ridiculus premimum to have to pay over a PQ 69.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • rkfishrkfish Posts: 2,617 ✭✭✭
    Yes....and sent it back!
    Steve

    Check out my PQ selection of Morgan & Peace Dollars, and more at:
    WWW.PQDOLLARS.COM or WWW.GILBERTCOINS.COM
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,199 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes - a PCGS graded MS65 1874 - had all the eye appeal of a black piece of coal - kept my PQ MS64 until the MS67 came along.
    Early Dollar Set
  • gmarguligmarguli Posts: 2,225 ✭✭
    Based on the screams and howls that are heard in this forum whenever I mention that this happens all the time and the collectors keep those coins just for the Registry Set Points, I would have to say that not a single forum member has never kept the higher grade coin. They have all returned the coin and kept the lower grade one because it is the better coin. I fully believe them. I also believe that Elvis is still alive and that the government would never lie to me.

    If anyone hasn't seen/purchased a "higher" grade coin and seen that it is worse than a lower grade coin, then they probably haven't looked at a lot of coins.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Greg, You are to cynical for a spring like day. Coin collectors always tell the truth and" the check is in the mail" could also be true. Regards Bear.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • osirisMMIIosirisMMII Posts: 225
    Greg - yeah I'm guilty of keeping some of those 70s to put in my registry set for the points image But ya know what? I got the nicer 69s right next to 'em in the lockbox !! Since grading is inexact (is that a word??) so is the registry! What can I say? I still own the nicest coins no matter what the damn insert says image
    ahhhh....... SODO MELVIN?????
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