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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3200333, member: 76863"]No it's not at all. What's completely ridiculous is the number of people who think they are experts in everything based off a picture. Have you seen the coin in hand? I sure haven't, I'm pretty confident most of the posters haven't either. How many that have posted would be considered a noted Franklin expert?</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes PCGS/CAC opinion holds more wight than people who just saw a picture and don't understand it</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes it does matter if its only a picture or you've seen the coin in hand, it matters A LOT. Making a statement like that is not only contradicting yourself but actually very harmful to people who may believe that forum junkies can grade definitively from picture and are experts on everything. Actual experts graded the coin then stickered it then it was sold by a firm that rejects things they don't believe in and the buyers who saw it fell in love. But somehow because you saw a picture that's supposed to mean more?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They grade to their own standard. They agreed, it's as simple as that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 3200333, member: 76863"]No it's not at all. What's completely ridiculous is the number of people who think they are experts in everything based off a picture. Have you seen the coin in hand? I sure haven't, I'm pretty confident most of the posters haven't either. How many that have posted would be considered a noted Franklin expert? Yes PCGS/CAC opinion holds more wight than people who just saw a picture and don't understand it Yes it does matter if its only a picture or you've seen the coin in hand, it matters A LOT. Making a statement like that is not only contradicting yourself but actually very harmful to people who may believe that forum junkies can grade definitively from picture and are experts on everything. Actual experts graded the coin then stickered it then it was sold by a firm that rejects things they don't believe in and the buyers who saw it fell in love. But somehow because you saw a picture that's supposed to mean more? They grade to their own standard. They agreed, it's as simple as that.[/QUOTE]
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