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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1669871, member: 112&quot;]First of all Chris how many people like you do you think there are ? Not very dang many is how many. Do you for one second think that the majority of coin collectors know even a fraction of what you know ? And you&#039;ve been reading coin forums for how long ? And TPG propaganda ? From me ? Really ???</p><p><br /></p><p>The vast majority of raw collectible coins are sitting in somebody&#039;s collection. Only a small percentage of the total are ever in the market at any given point in time. And of those that are in the market at any one time, the majority of those are primarily traded back and forth between dealers because they can&#039;t sell them to anybody else - because most of them are problem coins of one kind or another.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now go back and think about how many times you have seen people come to this forum, or another forum, and ask about a collection they just inherited. How many of those coins are problem coins ? If you answer anything other than most of them I&#039;m gonna be very surprised. Time and time again you see the same thing over and over. And you see it over and over because most of the collections out there are just like that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now think about most of the raw coins you can find on ebay, or any other auction venue. Most of those are problem coins too. And they are sold on ebay because that is about the only place you can find somebody who will buy them, somebody who doesn&#039;t know any better, somebody who does not know how to identify a problem coin when they see one. And believe it or not, most collectors cannot. Their collections are full of problem coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many stories have you heard or read about cleaning coins with everything under the sun ? How many times have you seen a person ask - how can I make my coins look better ? How many times have you, personally told somebody else - don&#039;t clean your coins ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now add all of that up. And I&#039;m only touching the surface. Stop and think. Do you really disagree ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Chris, the paraphrase that I use about 80% of all raw coins being problem coins, that comes from Q. David Bowers. Would you believe him if he told you that ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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