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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1881824, member: 112&quot;]And how is that any different than you, or somebody else, saying they are correct and I am incorrect ? What makes them correct and anybody who disagrees with them wrong ? The fact that they are the TPGs ?&nbsp; It&#039;s not written in stone anywhere that they are right and everybody else is wrong. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A problem with it ? I thought it was hilarious !</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ahhhhh - so anybody who disagrees with the TPGs or thinks that they over-grade coins is on the lunatic fringe ? That&#039;s your honest definition ? That&#039;s going a bit far even for you Paul.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I wear as a badge of honor is the fact that I grade coins differently than the TPGs do. That my grading is consistent, unlike theirs which has changed numerous times. That I follow a written and published set of standards instead of following no written or published standards at all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No Paul, my not collecting coins has absolutely nothing to do with it. I take and follow the same conservative stance that I have taken for decades. And yes, you and anybody else who still does collect coins, <u>do have</u> the choice of simply dismissing TPG grades. That is the very definition of buy the coin and not the slab. Or are you going to tell me that that&#039;s wrong too ? That people no longer have the choice to do that ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Nor am I the only person there is who follows that conservative stance Paul. There&#039;s a lot of others who do too.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well you&#039;re right about one thing, I don&#039;t listen you about that. Do you know why ? Because you&#039;re wrong. I am, and always have been, first and foremost a member of this forum just like every other member. And as such I have the right to say anything I want, as long is it stays within the forum rules, just like every other member. What I say it not said as a moderator, it is said as a member. Every moderator there is on CT, every moderator there has ever been on CT, was just a member like everybody else before they became a moderator. And they don&#039;t have to change a dang thing when they do become one. Regardless of what you, or anybody else thinks.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well you&#039;re welcome to your opinion Paul, everybody&#039;s got one. But I&#039;ve been the same exact way that I am today for my entire life. And I&#039;m not about to change now. As for the health of the forum, hmmm. I&#039;ve been here since the forum was 2 months old. I&#039;ve posted the same way, said the same things in the same way since day one of my membership. And what has happened to this forum over that period of time ? I can tell you what&#039;s happened, CT has gown to be the biggest coin forum on the internet. Now if I was so bad for this forum, how could that have possibly happened since I&#039;ve been here since the beginning ? That seems to tell me one thing - that your opinion is not accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for my posting information that disagrees with what is accepted in the numismatic community - are the people who agree with what is generally accepted the only ones who have a right to speak ? If that were the case, how would people gain new knowledge ? If that were the case how would old mistakes be corrected and the correct information and knowledge be distributed ? Knowledge and information that is and has been generally accepted in the numismatic community for decades is corrected all the time Paul, and by a whole lot of people. But yet you don&#039;t ever seem to have a problem with them when they do it. So why is it you have a problem with it when I do it ? It&#039;s almost like the problem you have Paul is not with what I say, but rather with the fact that it is me who is saying it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is not what I said at all. My first comment was that I would call it a problem coin. Nobody else - me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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