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<p>[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4490925, member: 73489"]At times, the Balkanization of the coin hobby -- or should I say COIN LABELS -- has gotten ridiculous.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the same time, the introduction of the TPGs (and to an extent, CAC) gives you a certain level of confidence that quite frankly would NOT be there if we were relying on the same stuff as 50 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I get where vets like Doug and others are coming from, I do. But they represent the 99.999% percentile of knowledgable graders and collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>The vast majority of folks would stick to moderns or bullion rather than risk being burned on numismatics if we didn't have the protections and safeguards we have today that we didn't in 1970.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4490925, member: 73489"]At times, the Balkanization of the coin hobby -- or should I say COIN LABELS -- has gotten ridiculous. At the same time, the introduction of the TPGs (and to an extent, CAC) gives you a certain level of confidence that quite frankly would NOT be there if we were relying on the same stuff as 50 years ago. I get where vets like Doug and others are coming from, I do. But they represent the 99.999% percentile of knowledgable graders and collectors. The vast majority of folks would stick to moderns or bullion rather than risk being burned on numismatics if we didn't have the protections and safeguards we have today that we didn't in 1970.[/QUOTE]
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