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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2404731, member: 78153&quot;]TPGs would a lot less important financially if US based collectors (who are almost the only ones who prefer graded coins) didn&#039;t make such a big deal out of minimal if not imaginary differences in quality and pay substantial to exorbitant premiums for one or a few points on the grading scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for counterfeits, if the price level reflected coins actual numismatic merits instead of (concurrently) being treated as &quot;investments&quot;, a lot less of it would exist because it wouldn&#039;t be (as) profitable to do it.&nbsp; For the coins I buy, outside of one series (the more common South Africa Union), the coins are too scarce and the price level isn&#039;t high enough where it is worthwhile to fake most of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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