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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1933212, member: 5233&quot;]I have seen major pedigree coins get higher grades.&nbsp; I was thinking you were making that claim that submissions by major dealers get better grades verses submissions by smaller dealers or collectors.&nbsp; I will agree with you that coins from famous collections do get a little extra bump sometimes. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen people here make the claim that the TPGs are biased towards major dealers and I disagree with that.&nbsp; I thought that is what you were saying.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think there are 2 ways to look at this.&nbsp; First, I think the consumers want their key dates to be higher grades.&nbsp; That is what the consumers want and the TPGs cater to the consumers.&nbsp; I also don&#039;t think it&#039;s just key dates that get special treatment.&nbsp; Many dates in various series are graded differently than other coins in the series.&nbsp; Look at the 1880-S Morgan Dollar.&nbsp; The TPGs are far more strict when it comes to grading this coin than they are with other coins in the series.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On page 3 of this thread you literally quoted a comment that I made that said exactly that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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