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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cringely, post: 1369664, member: 22271&quot;]Us (early) copper guys (and girls) tend to go the other way, breaking out slabs to have raw copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the reason is that TPG&#039;s do a lousy job of grading early (pre-1858) copper. Early American Copper (EAC) <a href="http://www.eacs.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.eacs.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eacs.org/</a> grading is much more strict than the TPG&#039;s. On average, PCGS and NGC tend to be one full grade (not points) higher than EAC standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>I much more prefer to see the raw copper in my hand than to peer at it through plastic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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