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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1503176, member: 26302&quot;]I am simply stating that TPG facilitates laziness. What percentage of collectors can intelligently discuss the grade of a slabbed morgan nowadays? How many can go into differences in prime focal areas versus non-prime areas? Soft strike, planchet defects, mint/date differences, etc? Fact is, most collectors and dealers accept the TPG as fact and don&#039;t question it. They have been conditioned by slabs that learning to grade and authenticate is pointless as someone else is doing it for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, really Morgandude? You do not think you can outgrade a professional when they have to do so many grades per day? I don&#039;t even really COLLECT US coins any more, and I am sure I can go to a show and find quite a few slabs everyone here would admit are overgraded, undergraded possibly but everyone and their brother look for those. Fact is even if you accept only 1% of coins are overgraded, the problem is these NEVER get resubmitted, so the error rate goes up even further due to attrition. Couple this with millions upon millions of slabbed coins today, the number has to be in the tens if not hundreds of thousands of overgraded slabs assuming only a 1% error rate. You cannot spot one coins out of tens or hundreds of thousands of examples that are in error? And you accuse us of an &quot;exercise in ego&quot;? I would accuse you of blind faith in a man-made, for profit corporation that is beholden in their grading to no one but their shareholders myself. Want to increase profits? Loosen up grading standards to encourage a slew of resubmissions to achieve higher grades, and generate a huge boost in profits and share price. NO, that could NEVER happen........</p><p><br /></p><p>As for me being a &quot;dinosaur&quot; or &quot;professional malcontent&quot;, I guess whatever. I spend sometimes $1000 or more a month on coins, and am only 43. I am thinking this dinosaur is not going extinct for quite a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, no offense meant Morgandude, I am simply reacting to what I read as a portrayal of me in yoru post. I don&#039;t have to apologize to Paul since I assume he knew I was just kidding with the &quot;short bus collecting&quot; line. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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