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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1811803, member: 68&quot;]People have been bashing moderns since 1965 and this is more of it.&nbsp; If they didn&#039;t want to &quot;strain at gnats, trying to determine in 1000 new types of coins where to draw the line between 69 and 70&quot; they could simply not grade those coins that often come in very hagh grade.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see the logic in this but then I don&#039;t see why all graders don&#039;t grade whatever collectors demand. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The belief that the modern market is akin to beanie babies is, of course, modern bashing in itself.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t to say that this market is as secure and stable as the market for classic coins but this is part of the definition of &quot;modern&quot;. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The only way I can see this optimistically is to assume they don&#039;t have the staff and the expertise so want to concentrate on what they think they can do competently. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I believe they will sticker business strike Ikes so it&#039;s easy to just assume they don&#039;t have the manpower yet and/ or they are trying to get into the market gradually and maintain a good reputation.&nbsp; I can give them the benefit of the doubt in any case but the modern market is far larger than just looking at the difference between flyspecks on proofs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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