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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2480439, member: 76863&quot;]PCGS is definitely their preferred TPG.&nbsp; Though if PCGS doesn&#039;t get it&#039;s act together soon with turn around times that may quickly start to change since people don&#039;t like having to wait 2-3 months to get their coins back. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That may just be a government issue with some of the coins they had in those lots.&nbsp; If you look on <a href="http://arts.gov.au/movable/export/list" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://arts.gov.au/movable/export/list" rel="nofollow">http://arts.gov.au/movable/export/list</a> certain numismatic coins fall under their class B export list which requires governmental permission to export them which is necessary for grading.&nbsp; Being an auction house they may have just made a decision at some point to not add the cost and time of grading/applying for licenses to export them for certification.&nbsp; I am not sure how hard that process would be to get the permits or the cost but if that was their reasoning I can certainly understand it given their success without grading to this point.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even without the regulation hurdle sending mid five figure and 6 figure coins overseas would carry a substantial cost either raising their fees or eating into their profit rather significantly</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Royal Australian Mint really does a great job of promoting collecting there.&nbsp; I believe they currently have a program with one of their major grocery chains for special 2 dollar coins right now and they do a lot with special circulation coinage that gets people interested that may not have been otherwise.&nbsp; They even have a tour going around with a mint group to various cities.&nbsp; The US mint could learn a lot from them. </p><p><br /></p><p>It also doesn&#039;t hurt that a lot of their designs are very nice and they have a population that is very proud of it&#039;s heritage.&nbsp; I am not surprised the collecting base is strong given the total size of their country.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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