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Message:: [QUOTE="Sean5150, post: 2263970, member: 75607"]You sort of contradict yourself. You assert that all GSAs have been carefully picked through over the years, but ask to remember that the GSA horde was not only vast, but open to a great deal of people who are not necessarily collectors. Those two statements don't add up. The latter statement is more accurate; the GSA horde was vast. And while a great many of these coins were scrutinized and cherry picked, there are so many out there in grandfathers' attics that your former statement cannot be accurate. There are simply people out there who dont even know what a DMPL coin is. When I picked up this coin I showed my buddy at work with whom I recently shared my love of coins with. He watched one of those videos that tells you the difference between proof, uncirculated, etc. and looked at my coin and goes "that's not uncirculated, look at all the scratches on it". My point is that some people wouldnt even know a good coin from a bad coin, let alone DMPL from another, and those coins are out there. While pragmatism is always valued, it is a slippery slope between that and cynicism. I have no disagreement about the coin being nicer than expected. I just don't think the seller enhanced the original photos to make a coin look DMPL, whether it was one or not. I mean, if you look at his other items for sale, hes selling razors and costume jewelry.[/QUOTE]