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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bobbyhelmet, post: 1643763, member: 44166&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">This interview makes me very sad </span><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Companies like NGC are only &#039;interested&#039; in ancients as another way to suck money from hobbyists.&nbsp; If they get involved we all loose, if prices double I have to spend twice as much to get what I want.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">They have all but sucked the fun out of collecting US coins with slabs and questionably compiled price guides and grading.&nbsp; They set the price (not the value, just the price) and then nobody gets to touch their own coins and many cant help but re-submit to get that extra grade that somehow makes a coin so much more valuable.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">&quot;...this is the emerging market right now....a coin like this at $1500 could easily double and be worth $3000.&quot;</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">The ancients I&#039;ve seen slabbed have all had woefully inadequate descriptions and many have been incorrect.&nbsp; If you like slabs and price guides stick to modern coins and if your interested in &#039;investment opportunities&#039; go and see a financial adviser, coins are not the best way to make money (the irony </span><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><span style="color: #000000">)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">These companies are the &#039;new kids on the block&#039;, on the whole they are humored but not welcome by 99% of ancient collectors worldwide.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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