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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 627970, member: 19122&quot;]I enjoyed this back and forth, and I applaud the participants for not letting a disagreement degenerate into becoming personal. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not see how if it costs money to grade and slab, and then sticker a coin that those costs are not included in the price asked for that coin. I would not expect a dealer to turn his business into a charity for my sake, and I would tend to look a bit warily at a claim that those services have nothing to do with prices. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think that the subjective nature of grading is pretty well established, otherwise why would any tpg use three or however many experts to come to an average (mean or statistical?), if it was as cut and dried as a laboratory measurement a computor program could be used instead of flesh and blood. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also liked the tripartite dichotomy of collector investor and speculator that was mentioned, plus the overlap that each probably has, I would tend to think that the overlap occurs more with collectors, less so with investors, and even less so with speculators. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again to those who expressed themselves on these postings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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