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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 541462, member: 2972&quot;]Paul (and GDJMSP),&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I agree. My analogies weren&#039;t 100% accurate -- that&#039;s a fair criticism, IMO -- but they weren&#039;t intended to be....&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They were made to illustrate the underlying point that deception shouldn&#039;t be used as a sales tactic.&nbsp; When selling it should be the goal of the salesman to make his value statement to his client truthful.&nbsp; Just be honest.&nbsp; Unfortunately, we have come to a point in our capitalistic history that honesty is not the best policy in many people&#039;s minds -- and they let profit get ahead of being truthful.&nbsp; While I can certainly understand the motivation for such actions, I choose to not subscribe to that credo.&nbsp; Perhaps I&#039;m just an idealist, or a holdback from another time, but I truly believe that if you have to lie to someone to sell something, you shouldn&#039;t have been trying to sell them in the first place.&nbsp; Said another way, there&#039;s no price tag attached to my integrity.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So to me, the truth always matters, even if it is not readily obvious (or even determinable) where the truth lies.&nbsp; I fully realize the slippery slope that I&#039;ve put myself on, but I like it much better than the other side of the fence that justifies deception for profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the (very pretty) war nickel in question, I&#039;d label your coin 100% QT and leave it at that -- it&#039;s not a no-brainer NT coin and it&#039;s not a no-brainer AT coin.&nbsp; It lies somewhere on the AT side of the middle in my eyes (and I&#039;ll wager it is (not coincidentally) in an NGC holder as well <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ).</p><p><br /></p><p>Respectfully...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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