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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2480348, member: 78153&quot;]TPG is almost exclusively a US centric practice.&nbsp; The revised NGC population report provides an easy view to evaluate how prevalent it is elsewhere.&nbsp; China, South Africa, Australia and Canada top the list elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>From my review, China and Australia are predominantly NCLT.&nbsp; The counts for some Chinese circulating coins are high by world coin standards, but still a miniscule fraction of the total.&nbsp; I suspect it will be somewhat popular there in the future since these collectors have more counterfeiters in their backyard than probably anywhere else.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t seen many Australian coins in plastic outside of US auction and dealer websites.&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe most collectors in that market care for it, as I don&#039;t recall a single one in a Noble Numismatics auction and it is the largest firm in that market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Canada also has a lot of TPG which is a combination of NCLT plus I believe mostly buying by US collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>South Africa wholeheartedly has adopted TPG, or at least the newer &quot;investors&quot; certainly prefer it.&nbsp; But still, over 200,000 or more than 50% of the total is accounted for by one coin, the 2008 Mandela 90th BD 5R.&nbsp; It was somewhat of a national obsession apparently, on par with beanie babies here.&nbsp; At the peak, coin broker South African Coin Company purportedly sold an MS-69 for the equivalent of $339,000 at the then FX rate.&nbsp; It will undoubtedly go down in history as the most overpriced coin and worst value ever.&nbsp; Even at a &quot;discount&quot; of 99% from this price, it would still be exorbitantly overpriced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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