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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 526824, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Of course they do and most every dealer I know has had it happen to them personally</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course they do and many dealers I know have it happen to them personally mostly with monster boxes of Silver Eagles or other multiple orders of course, but what surprises me is that you don&#039;t know that?????</p><p><i>Lets even go one step further though and say that that does not ever happen like that.</i></p><p><b>The statement was made that they have &quot;no vested interest&quot; - they have every vested interest in the grades that they assign - what in the world are you thinking about, that&#039;s their entire business - they would not even get any business at all if they graded coins that did not, in the end, please customers.</b></p><p>Please don&#039;t ever think I do not apply the same set of discernment skills to all I do, because I do!</p><p>I personally know a dealer, (I was at the auction with him) that purchased 50 1960 Proof sets and every set had the same big Large Date over Small Date proof Lincoln in them - a great coin.</p><p>Now of course out of 50 about 15 of them were PR-66, 67 Red and 4 or 5 that could go 68-RD easy.&nbsp; This dealer and some of the rest of us took odds on how they would come back knowing the census status of that coin in 68 Rd was extremely low and hard to get (ie: it&#039;s hard to get???) - it goes from a $800 to a $1500 or more coin within that step from 67 to 68 back then - he knew he would get x number of 66&#039;s, x-number of 67&#039;s and maybe 2 68&#039;s - that&#039;s exactly what he got.&nbsp; All of us knew that there were more 67&#039;s in there plus more (a couple anyway 68&#039;s)&nbsp; in fact a few of the 67&#039;s were much better than the 68&#039;s.</p><p>If I was in the TPG company I would be asked, or told to do the same thing I bet on a daily basis, or at least weekly for sure.</p><p><b>Please don&#039;t kid yourselves regarding this - I thought everyone knew this.&nbsp; It sure ain&#039;t news to us please someone help me out here - did some of you really not know that?????</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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