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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 871193, member: 2972&quot;]No, I have that problem because I don&#039;t have sufficient experience with these coins to be confident in my abilities.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please.&nbsp; I&#039;ve not surrendered.&nbsp; I&#039;m simply aware of and acknowledge my strengths and weaknesses.</p><p><br /></p><p>Raw chain cents -- no problem.&nbsp; Raw liberty cap cents -- no problem.&nbsp; Raw matron heads -- piece of cake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Early silver -- problem for me because I&#039;ve simply not looked at enough coins or become familiar enough with the market to know better.&nbsp; Much less know better from photographs.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not so sure that the TPGs do such a bad job.&nbsp; For the series I&#039;ve followed the closest -- early copper -- I think they do a very good job of predicting market price (if not technical grading). </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But the market does.&nbsp; Like I said, a Chain Cent (or rare Matron Head variety) is looked at differently than a Lincoln -- that&#039;s not me talking, that&#039;s the market.&nbsp;&nbsp; Put a corroded Chain Cent case at a show and you&#039;ll have a hundred people asking about it.&nbsp; Put a corroded 1980 Lincoln in the same case and not a single person will ask about the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at the Holmes middle-date collection about to come up for auction at Goldberg.&nbsp; Watch coins with major problems go for crazy money and tell me I&#039;m wrong and tell the EAC guys they&#039;re wrong.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The market has spoken, and I gotta tell you, it doesn&#039;t agree with you, IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that doesn&#039;t mean the market is right and you are wrong (or vice versa) -- because in the end the only person&#039;s opinion that matters is the person who owns the coin and/or the person who is contemplating purchasing it -- and who are any of us to say a person&#039;s likes or dislikes are right or wrong?</p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly not me....Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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