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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2106772, member: 15929&quot;]It wouldn&#039;t be the first time a TPG got it wrong.</p><p>IIRC, they base there attributions on the photo&#039;s in the CPG which, for these large cois, can be very misleading.</p><p><br /></p><p>SINCE The CPG uses CONECA&#039;s die numbers each coin that is submitted should at the minimum go through CONECA which has a complete library of photographs for attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>NGC even published their error here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/coin-varieties/eisenhower-dollar-die-varieties/1971-s-ddo-silver-1-fs-106-3903/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/coin-varieties/eisenhower-dollar-die-varieties/1971-s-ddo-silver-1-fs-106-3903/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ngccoin.com/coin-varieties/eisenhower-dollar-die-varieties/1971-s-ddo-silver-1-fs-106-3903/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The FS-106 is a direct match to the DDO-022 in the Authoritative Reference for Eisenhower Dollars yet NGC attributed the DDO-029 as the FS-106. Similar but not the same when you get right down to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Die Variety Game and the willingness of the TPG&#039;s to attribute dies that appear in the CPG without proper validation has fooled more than one collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buy the Coin not the Holder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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