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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PlanoSteve, post: 3657425, member: 91609&quot;][USER=106302]@itm389[/USER], welcome to CT!</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, here&#039;s an <u>alternate thought process</u>, since you already indicated you got it <b><i>&quot;cheap&quot; off eBay</i></b>...</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say that someone takes out an ad in a print newspaper (OK, I know no one is going to see it, but go with me on this) telling everyone:&nbsp; &quot;Your sister (let&#039;s call her Sue) collects postage stamps&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p>Are you going to perpetuate the lie?...or try to extinguish it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Well you know damn well Sue is no stamp collector, so you take out an ad in that paper &quot;No she does not!&quot;.&nbsp; Now, of course you can&#039;t prove she doesn&#039;t, since, just because you can&#039;t find her collection doesn&#039;t mean she doesn&#039;t have one.&nbsp; (Alternately, you CAN prove she does have one because you can just produce it.&nbsp; But I digress..) </p><p><br /></p><p>So, let&#039;s go back to this <b><i>cheap</i></b> coin in question.&nbsp; It seems that responders are in basic agreement that the grade is less than advertised &amp; it is one of those questionable slabs (I have acquired a few ICG&#039;s because I got great deals on them).&nbsp; And then there&#039;s the FBL issue...whether it is or isn&#039;t...</p><p><br /></p><p>So, since you got this so cheap (on fleaBay) the issue is whether or not you perpetuate the problem &amp; perhaps pawn it off on another collector down the road?</p><p><br /></p><p>Just food for thought!&nbsp; (I still have ICG coins, but don&#039;t have ICG slabs)&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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