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<p>[QUOTE="TheMont, post: 2471388, member: 80121"]TPG services are in the market to make money. They'll put fancy labels on their slabs, they'll make outrageous claims, such as First Day Certification, (I just don't see how that could be done except maybe if the mint issues a new coin at a show and a certification service is there and you get [for mucho dollars] one day certification.)They'll list ridiculously high prices for modern bullion coins because of low population numbers. The coins have low population numbers, because they aren't worth getting graded.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want a good laugh go to PCGS or NGC price guides and look up the price listed of an early bullion ASE in MS70; the price is in the thousands for a bullion coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, I state the best use of TPG services is that they guarantee a coin is real and will pay you what a genuine coin would cost if they are wrong. On the other hand, they are saying a coin has details more and more to cover themselves. A friend submitted several toned coins tha cme from the same bank roll. Some came back as real toning and some came back as artificial toning. All from the same bank roll.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some very well known coin dealers that will crack open and submit the same coin over and over again, because the difference in price between one grade on a rare coin can be thousands of dollars. That's why I question some population reports on key coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheMont, post: 2471388, member: 80121"]TPG services are in the market to make money. They'll put fancy labels on their slabs, they'll make outrageous claims, such as First Day Certification, (I just don't see how that could be done except maybe if the mint issues a new coin at a show and a certification service is there and you get [for mucho dollars] one day certification.)They'll list ridiculously high prices for modern bullion coins because of low population numbers. The coins have low population numbers, because they aren't worth getting graded. If you want a good laugh go to PCGS or NGC price guides and look up the price listed of an early bullion ASE in MS70; the price is in the thousands for a bullion coin! Again, I state the best use of TPG services is that they guarantee a coin is real and will pay you what a genuine coin would cost if they are wrong. On the other hand, they are saying a coin has details more and more to cover themselves. A friend submitted several toned coins tha cme from the same bank roll. Some came back as real toning and some came back as artificial toning. All from the same bank roll. There are some very well known coin dealers that will crack open and submit the same coin over and over again, because the difference in price between one grade on a rare coin can be thousands of dollars. That's why I question some population reports on key coins.[/QUOTE]
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