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Message:: [QUOTE="MadMartigan, post: 1842219, member: 58925"]I'll take it even a step further I think it's a scam to grade any modern coinage.  If you buy an eagle or commemorative dollar it's about %90 you will get a 69 or 70 the minting process is so good nowadays.  So your throwing away money to find out if it's a 69 or 70 when the majority of people can't tell the difference including the graders.  I bet you could resubmit all the 69s and %10 of the time they'd come back as 70s the second time.  So it's a double scam. It's a scam because most people can't tell the difference between a 69 and a 70.  And then it's a scam again because your paying to Slab something you already knew was a 69 or 70 without even submitting it. So i don't feel bad about people who get screwed by these shady hsn's.  I like watching them to laugh at the silliness of the shows and prices.  Direct tv has a coin and art channel 223 that is hilarious to watch.  It's like watching the shadiest used car salesman show. I think the desire to slab everything comes from when the minting process wasn't so good and you wouldn't get full heads or full bell lines or full split bands.  I can see slabbing classic coins but anything from the 90s on is a double scam.[/QUOTE]