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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismania, post: 1975881, member: 28971&quot;]Rich, I am in agreement that they don&#039;t grade them any differently (though PCGS grading a piece of sandpaper MS64 certainly makes one wonder what the hell they are doing/thinking, along with the ANA gold Kennedy First Sold coin...things they do sometimes makes me really wonder).&nbsp; I&#039;m just absolutely stunned that COIN grading co&#039;s do these &#039;extra&#039; things to make money....and having graded coins selling for crazy $$ simply because a label makes it different is crazy.&nbsp; Example....take the Prez $$ series.&nbsp; Highest graded for &#039;First Strike&#039; labels can be MS66, and it has it&#039;s own coin number.&nbsp; NON First Strike label highest graded can be MS67.&nbsp; That First Strike MS66 can fetch more than an MS67, simply because of a label, when in reality, MS66 is MS66, MS67 is MS67 (and obviously, a better grade than MS66, it SHOULD fetch MORE, but it doesn&#039;t) no matter the label.&nbsp; Seems collecting graded COINS has definitely given way to LABEL collecting....that is a far cry from what the hobby initially welcomed what the TPG&#039;s went into business for.&nbsp; COLLECT THE COIN, NOT THE LABEL!!!&nbsp; Perfect example, $100,000 (allegedly) for the &#039;First Sold&#039; at Chicago.&nbsp; How crazy is that when the actual First Sold COULD have been at the Philly site, or the D.C. site?&nbsp; $100,000 for a label.&nbsp; First Strikes, which used to be the gold standard in label collecting, has already been usurped for First Sold.&nbsp; Let&#039;s not forget, First Strike sells for a few grand, vs First Sold for $100,000...how insane is that??&nbsp; Registry sets....boy did they redefine how some collectors view the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I may need a break from coins.&nbsp; Too much to take in, when all I want to do is collect the best examples of coins, in the BEST GRADE within my reach.&nbsp; But we are being told, by the TPG&#039;s that a LABEL makes a coin more valuable?&nbsp; Maybe the TPG&#039;s need the break.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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