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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WillGK, post: 5130100, member: 115517&quot;]No, never saw it, thanks!&nbsp; I read every post.&nbsp; Grade inflation might help me because I’m selling everything because if I don’t, well, I am old and it’s time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I look at the third party graders a bit differently from the thread discussion.&nbsp; I come from a time when there were no grading services, no help from any dealer who would take me under his wing, no local coin club, no internet, no helpful online forums, no nuttin’ - the law of the jungle. Now, for thirty five bucks small I can get actual experts to evaluate my coin and put it into a secure holder - wow!&nbsp; There may be grade inflation and other dynamics at work, but I see such problems as secondary to the basic value that the graders bring to collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>I recently learned (first PCGS submission) that some of the type coins that I bought as rarities and fawned-over for the better part of 50 years were doctored and aren’t worth a whole lot more than what I paid for them.&nbsp; This would have never happened if there had been third party graders. (Conversely, I bought a lot of junk BU Franklins as bullion investments, left them laying in the attic, went through them recently, and picked out several dozen that I bought for two bucks each are now likely worth hundreds, if not thousands.&nbsp; So, ignorance, followed by serendipity.&nbsp; Now I’m learning all that I can about grading Franklins.) </p><p><br /></p><p>It would be nice to be young again and collecting coins.&nbsp; So much information available to research and learn from, and broad market access for small collectors.&nbsp; And third party graders put some structure and discipline into the market, leveling the playing field a bit. It would be so much fun to be out there searching and building a collection of these wonderful little works of art.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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