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<p>[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 4491256, member: 92655"]Had our hobby been effected by the wholesale change the TPG’s introduced back when I began collecting in the 1960’s, I don’t know that I would have stayed with it. There is no way around it in this day and age. If you have an interest in numismatics, you simply have to educate yourself to what the TPG’s do and their resultant affect on coins values...... Now I am something of a black sheep. I am not so interested in a TPG label. In fact, much of my collection consists of coins that have been labeled as damaged goods by the TPG’s. I have several high end and very eye appealing coins that I sourced for a song because of the dreaded damaged label and I am perfectly alright with that.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point is that I don’t necessarily fault the TPG’s for taking grading too far. They are a business doing what business does..... I do fault us as the hobbyists for placing more value on a label than we do the beauty of the coin inside.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 4491256, member: 92655"]Had our hobby been effected by the wholesale change the TPG’s introduced back when I began collecting in the 1960’s, I don’t know that I would have stayed with it. There is no way around it in this day and age. If you have an interest in numismatics, you simply have to educate yourself to what the TPG’s do and their resultant affect on coins values...... Now I am something of a black sheep. I am not so interested in a TPG label. In fact, much of my collection consists of coins that have been labeled as damaged goods by the TPG’s. I have several high end and very eye appealing coins that I sourced for a song because of the dreaded damaged label and I am perfectly alright with that. My point is that I don’t necessarily fault the TPG’s for taking grading too far. They are a business doing what business does..... I do fault us as the hobbyists for placing more value on a label than we do the beauty of the coin inside.[/QUOTE]
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