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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rawbuyer, post: 1189038, member: 27213&quot;]I agree with buy the coin and not the slab. I remember back in the mid-1980&#039;s there was a company named Elsmere Numismatics based in Connecticut. They would send out catalogs, with no images, with all the coins graded by TPG&#039;s. If I remember correctly they would state that the future of TPG coins would be that collectors would buy them &quot;sight unseen&quot;, knowing that the coin had been graded by a TPG, and that the grade would hold up in the market place, as long as it was in that specific TPG slab. So, if I adhere to that thought process, if a copper coin does turn from red to brown, but was graded as red by a TPG, it can still be offered as a red coin?? Food for thought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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