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Message:: [QUOTE="Stephan77, post: 2225096, member: 74244"]Perhaps the biggest shock I've ever gotten, many years ago, from learning about TPG's is that they grade dipped coins. I almost didn't believe it when I first heard it, because anyone can spin it any way they want, but to me a dipped coin is a cleaned coin. Yes, there are of course many degrees of cleaning, but it's a cleaned coin just the same. After learning about that, nothing about TPG's shocks me that much any longer as far as assigned grades they give. Overall though with their grading consistency considering the wear or the strike of a coin, the reputable graders basically do a fine job with that. My feeling with TPG's is their main importance in the marketplace is authentication, especially in this era, and it's getting worse, of higher and higher quality Chinese fakes. I've also been buying Morgan dollars, preferably 64's and 65's, and authenticating the coin in a reputable TPG slab is a must for me. Then I view the coin to see if it appeals to me. My favorites are those graded prooflike Morgans - love 'em...especially because I think most of them are probably not dipped, and they are beautiful![/QUOTE]