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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3885298, member: 112&quot;]No, because ya can&#039;t guess based on the holder alone. Some holders were used for only a few months, others were used for many years. So holders tell you nothing with any degree of certainty.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, anybody who wants to do so, can look at auction archives, they have the actual dates. And the coins sold 15 years ago or longer, it will be a very rare exception that is not graded more strictly than those graded more recently. That&#039;s proof.</p><p><br /></p><p>And just about everybody, except you and few others, agrees with that. There has even been a professional grader or two here on this forum flat out admit that the TPGs have loosened grading standards. And you even ignore them !</p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing I can surmise Paul is that you simply don&#039;t want to believe what every else knows with certainty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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