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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1582453, member: 19423&quot;]Dealers do that all of the time when they disagree with a grade.&nbsp; That wasn&#039;t the major issue some had with what he did.&nbsp; Jarett relisted the coin after cracking it out and in the title of the auction he called the coin &quot;Gem.&quot;&nbsp; To most collectors that have been around awhile, the word &quot;Gem&quot; is synonymous with uncirculated, or more specifically the grade of MS65.&nbsp; So he took a lot of heat for cracking out an AU58 coin and selling it as an MS65.</p><p><br /></p><p>I too live in SoCal and see him around all of the time at shows and shops.&nbsp; I&#039;ve also had conversations with him about that 3-legger incident.&nbsp; Remember, at that time he was a rookie in the coin business.&nbsp; He claims (and I believe him) that he was just using the word &quot;gem&quot; in the title as an adjective to describe it as being a nice coin (which it was).&nbsp; The same way that others would call a coin PQ.&nbsp; He insists that he didn&#039;t realize that saying &quot;gem&quot; would be equal to saying &quot;MS65&quot; to many in the business.&nbsp; Makes sense that a rookie in the business might not know that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Others disagreed with his reasons for cracking the coin in the first place, to attempt to remove a faint fingerprint on the coin after NCS already failed to do so to his liking.&nbsp; Again, at this time he was working at a local coin shop who taught him various conservation techniques (some more market acceptable than others) and figured he could work the same magic on his 3-legger to get rid of that print.&nbsp; Well it didn&#039;t work out as he planned and maybe he got a little more aggressive with the &quot;conservation&quot; than some others would have done.&nbsp; Again, seems like a rookie mistake.&nbsp; The 3-legger didn&#039;t get pulled, it was sold via auction on eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s real easy to beat up on him and many seem to have a little too much fun with it.&nbsp; Especially since everyone knows he&#039;s banned and can&#039;t really defend himself.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong, I definitely don&#039;t give him a pass for all of his actions on and off of the forums, but it&#039;s clear he has grown quite a bit in this business over the past few years and has dealt with some very impressive coins.&nbsp; Give the guy a break, that MS69 Morgan Dollar is awesome.&nbsp; I saw it in hand and it&#039;s even better than his photos/videos and I agree that it deserves a PL designation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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