Can anyone truly tell the difference between a MS69 and a MS70? If MS70 is perfect then why is the PCGS MS70's worth more sometimes 100's of dollars more than NGC's MS70's?

I can remember collecting coins long before the numerical grades. I can also remember when a MS65 was the top grade! Well here comes the Registry and the super grades. It seems funny to me that a raw modern maybe worth a couple of bucks. Then you get it put into plastic and all of a sudden you have a thousand dollar coin! It just makes no sense. Most of the modern stuff that is being shoved into the Registry sets comes directly from the mint into a TPG holder. Never mind the other 500,000 of the same coin being purchased from the mint and not sent in for grading yet. Fellows, these coins will never circulate! How many other MS70's are just sitting out there waiting to be sent in for grading? People aren't collecting coins anymore they are collecting plastic slabs with a little piece of paper stating some way out there grade. I don't even see a reason to have a modern coin in the slab at all!

Coin collecting should be fun! I am working on several sets that will never be in any registry. I am busting open the slabs and putting the coins into albums. Yes, I buy slabbed coins and bust them open and place the coins into my albums. I am not even using the new state of the art albums either. I am using 50+ year old "Library of Coins" albums. The paper in the albums contains sulfur! The coins in my Buffalo Nickel album are all turning a light amber color. Some of the coins are taking on other colors as well! The only competition for me is trying to find decent looking circulated coins that haven't been messed with. Ten years from now which set is going to be worth more? Your MS70 slabs or my carefully assembled albums?

I do have a registry set of Buffalo Nickels, though (Monty's Bison's). You will find coins in that set grading from VF20 to ms67. I never will have the top set but that's fine with me! I try to buy coins that please me no matter the numerical grade. Also I do have a couple of MS63 and MS64 coins that I have no interest in upgrading whatsoever.

Here is one of my newest purchases a 1918 ANACS MS63 Buffalo! Heck I can't even put the coin in my Registry set! This should prove that you don't really need to have a coin with a top grade!