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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3295347, member: 24314&quot;]CasualAg$, posted: &quot;If there was no grading system to enable steady profits to investors or speculators or thieves we’d be left with a group of people who appreciate coins and enjoy collecting them and support businesses that enable collectors.&quot;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;What a <span style="color: #330066">nightmare</span>!!!&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It appears you were not a collector before the late 1970&#039;s when the second <b>authentication </b>service (INSAB) became the <span style="color: #ff0000">first</span> <b>authentication and grading</b> service (TPGS).&nbsp;&nbsp; Talk about a <span style="color: #330066">nightmare.</span> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Folks learning their expensive treasures were worthless, over graded, junk!&nbsp; TPG was second only to authentication as a protection to the public.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is unfortunate that what GDJMSP wrote about their decline was true.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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