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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 829796, member: 6036&quot;]&quot;stricter&quot; doesn&#039;t mean &quot;better&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody can low-grade a coin; I can take your MS64, poor-mouth it, and call it a VF25.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to whether the canadian grading services are any good - the point is moot. The canadian market is microscopic compared to the US market. If you want to have your coins graded by the canadian services, go ahead. But you&#039;ll be met with a lot of blank stares when it&#039;s time to sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe that&#039;s fair, maybe it&#039;s not. But that, too, is moot.</p><p><br /></p><p>We deal with the market on the market&#039;s terms, not our own. If widespread perception says a given service (say ICG) has no cred, then they have no cred.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, perception is, to a large degree, reality in this biz. I wish it weren&#039;t so, but it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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