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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1503752, member: 15309&quot;]On the contrary, you are not alone on the mountain.&nbsp; Almost every advanced collector that I have interacted with demands that their coins be certified by either PCGS or NGC and many prefer that high value coins have CAC certification.&nbsp; Chris is the one who is alone on the mountain.&nbsp; He spends up to $10K per month on coins and considers it completely disposable money.&nbsp; He has no intention of selling his coins and is a self proclaimed hoarder.&nbsp; It is nice to be wealthy enough to have a hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on coins that is viewed as a hobby expense but I promise you that is not the norm.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The decision to demand TPG certification and prefer CAC certification for coins is born of financial prudence.&nbsp; Anyone who has ever tried to sell a raw coin collection has probably learned this lesson the hard way.&nbsp; However, TPG certification is not enough on it&#039;s own.&nbsp; Those &quot;lazy&quot; collectors that don&#039;t learn how to grade are indeed plastic collectors.&nbsp; They are destined to purchase the dreck, or as CAC would call them, &quot;C&quot; coins for the grade.&nbsp; Since they don&#039;t know any better, they will buy the coin at what they think is a decent price only to find that they have to take a significant loss at the time of sale because they are told the coin is not good for the grade.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell you how many times someone posts a NEWP with a purchase price below wholesale with a photo that shows a very optimistically graded coin.&nbsp; Most of the best coins in my collection were purchased at a significant premium to the price guides and I am not just talking about the rainbow toned coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some people on this forum associate anyone who supports the TPG&#039;s or CAC as plastic collectors.&nbsp; I guess they just can&#039;t fathom that a collector with decent grading skills would still demand the security and liquidity provided by the TPG&#039;s and CAC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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