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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 611113, member: 16510&quot;]<b>It&#039;s not a matter of honesty it&#039;s a matter of marketability,</b></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not a matter of honesty it&#039;s a matter of marketability - there is no MS-70 coin, period.&nbsp; Nothing made by man and machines is perfect no matter what they say.&nbsp; They (the TPGC) all are in business to make money by grading and often authenticating your coins and then putting it in a piece of plastic, that&#039;s what they do.</p><p>If you believe they grade all coins the same then you are wrong. They purposely keep MS-70&#039;s to a minimum to seduce large dealers to send in groups or rolls, heck even boxes of silver eagles.&nbsp; They have created the very market we are discussing here, that&#039;s why they would and continue to do so.</p><p>Look you&#039;all if it walks like a duck, well you know the rest.</p><p>I&#039;ll bet you anything that if we could travel back in time to say 1951 and go to a large coin show and tell all these wonderful old-timers what these companies are doing they would either laugh us out of the bourse or have us locked up and throw away the key.</p><p>In fact I am going to throw this scenario up to Mr. Bowers to see if he can get an article out of it for Coin World, I think it may make a good one.</p><p>Now this is my opinion only but, if you believe that the encapsulated coin in more valuable or more important than a raw coin of the same grade then the TPG companies have also seduced you and succeeded in their very purpose of creating a market.&nbsp; I will concede any business that makes a product then creates a market is smart, very smart.&nbsp; But I do not have to buy it unless I am seduced also.&nbsp; There is nothing new under the sun folks except illusion.</p><p>One more thing and I&#039;ll shut up - one day soon all these modern commemorative and MS-69 or 70 modern proofs and buillion, (all the coins that are supposed to be almost perfect to begin with) will not even fetch the price of the same coin in it&#039;s original packaging.&nbsp; Plastic will litter the floor like broken crumbs waiting to be swept up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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