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Message:: [QUOTE="C-B-D, post: 2531236, member: 43130"]I thought it would be fun to make up a fake story about the coin collecting world being impacted in a massive way that changed the hobby forever. THIS IS FAKE! It's just conjecture for fun. What would our world be like if this really happened??? Here's my made-up story: "A rare coin grader who has worked at 3 of the major TPG's came forward early last week with irrefutable evidence that for the past 5 years, all three companies have conspired together to identify and purposefully under-grade coins valued at $250,000 and up. Some of these coins were slabbed as "Cleaned" or given other fake problems so as to lower their value on the open market. The conspirators then bought these coins as they appeared at auction for low prices and re-certified them without those problems and/or in higher grades, to be sold at a future date. It is unclear at this time how many coins this conspiracy has affected, but at least 74 coins have been identified thus far, totaling in excess of $30,000,000. Since the story broke just 4 days ago, all three TPG's have been shut down as the FBI continues to investigate."[/QUOTE]