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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3683167, member: 27832"]The flip side of this, of course, is that you can buy a raw genuine coin for an unfairly low price. It's just that your odds of buying a raw fake are much, much higher.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not <i>100%</i> guaranteed, but close enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember Kurt crowing about an MS65 raw 16-D that appeared in one of his beloved back-country auctions. They're out there. It's just that it's a really, really big haystack of fakes, with very few needles scattered through it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3683167, member: 27832"]The flip side of this, of course, is that you can buy a raw genuine coin for an unfairly low price. It's just that your odds of buying a raw fake are much, much higher. Not [I]100%[/I] guaranteed, but close enough. I remember Kurt crowing about an MS65 raw 16-D that appeared in one of his beloved back-country auctions. They're out there. It's just that it's a really, really big haystack of fakes, with very few needles scattered through it.[/QUOTE]
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