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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 751547, member: 66&quot;]I would be more inclined to put the blame for that on Amos Press and Coin World.&nbsp; The main thing that prevented the start up of the scam artist TPG&#039;s was the high cost of having injection dies produced for the creation of the slab shells.&nbsp; (A set of dies can cost $10K.) But then Coin World absorbed that cost and began marketing empty shells in 2002.&nbsp; When they did I predicted that we would now see everyone and his brother starting up their own &quot;grading services&quot;.&nbsp; Then came the Safe-slab brand shells that were marketed at first by a firm in OH, later FL.&nbsp; And finally the shells marketed by Certified Silver Investments.&nbsp; Those three shells account for the majority of the fly-by-night grading services.&nbsp; It is still very unusual for a TPG to create their own shell design.&nbsp; About the only one to do so recently has been Michigan Masters Numismatic Service.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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