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Message:: [QUOTE="samjimmy, post: 183803, member: 3813"]Actually, that's not part of the auction listing.  It's confusing and I don't know why he does it, but... In addition to listing ridiculously expensive notes, he's also a crusader for CGA (Currency Grading and Authentication, Inc.) which has been (at least in the past) a notorious overgrader just like many of the second-tier coin graders people complain about.  He attempts to discredit that notion and show how great CGA is (but he doesn't have an interest in it somehow*wink*) by doing some side-by-sides. In the first one, he's saying that CGC (either the original name for CGA or he's just trying to discredit PMG) graded the note EF45 while PMG graded the same note as CU63. In the second one, the top one is a PMG Gem UC69 while CGA graded the same note Gem UC68 (and of course, PMG is wrong).  That's my favorite one though as he put, "Who graded this note?  Stevie Wonders???"   What an idiot. In the third one, he's saying that PMG (another new grading company) graded it CU63 while CGA correctly graded it CU60 Restored (seems to me that neither is right on that one if it's been... restored).  Like I said, he's got an interest in it... "You cannot deny the quality and experience of the oldest and most accurate U.S. paper money grading company... <insert ad here> "[/QUOTE]