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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jody526, post: 155844, member: 578&quot;]Don&#039;t know for sure. I suspect quite a few.</p><p>There has been a flood of new interest sinse the Statehood quarter program. Many of the newer folks aren&#039;t familiar with things like coins, coin dealers, and third party grading.</p><p>From what I&#039;ve read, and for whatever reason, many feel safer buying &quot;certified&quot; material.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve spent most of my life connected to the hobby, in one way or another, and have come to the conclusion that I don&#039;t need to pay someone to tell me what I can find out for myself.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve only bought one.</p><p>It was an ANACS slab.</p><p>The coin had been cleaned, although there was no mention of this on the holder.</p><p>I was able to study it in hand, because I bought it at a coin show.</p><p>The dealer, and I agreed on a price, and I bought it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t going by what was on the label, so to answer the question, no, I wasn&#039;t ripped off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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