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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 15761585, member: 26302&quot;]The whole idea hurts my brain, sorry. First we had coins, we collect coins. Then we had shenanigans and paid for a third party to grade coins on their own made up grades and put them in slabs so we cannot touch them. Now we have ANOTHER company judge whether the first grader used their own made up grades were applied properly according to this new parties interpretation of grades. </p><p><br /></p><p>So at least 2 different companies are getting money from our hobby to apply their own grading system that is not the same as the official grading system hobbyists have. What is next, (I hate to say this since it might come to pass), another company grading the condition of the plastic and sticker, (mint with mint tags beanie babies anyone).</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for the rant. As someone who collected before slabs, just wondering how we got so twisted that we pretty much ignore the coin that we supposedly collect and argue over what for profit firms&#039; opinions are of it. If you like a coin, why does it matter if its MS66, MS66+, MS66+ green bean, etc etc? I would not have posted this is the thread was in the US coins forum, but given its in Coin Chat I thought it was a fair discussion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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