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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 521953, member: 6036&quot;]This is important &quot;icing on the cake&quot; on the crackout topic... particularly the &quot;talented&quot; and &quot;difficult&quot; parts.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If it were easy, and undergraded slabs common, everybody would do this.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s not easy. The vast majority of slabs are NOT upgrade candidates; they are either properly graded or overgraded. My guess-timate is <b>less than 5% of slabs are crackout / upgrade candidates</b>. (At least in the US series, which is closely scrutinized)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dealers have looked closely at most of the coins in their case. If they spot an upgrade candidate, they usually submit it themselves.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So you must outplay the dealer, other would-be crackout guys, <i>and</i> the TPG to get an upgrade; the undergraded coin slipped past all of them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>IOW... the crackout game is a game of SKILL and EXPERIENCE. Don&#039;t think for a minute you can randomly grab slabs, submit &#039;em, and get a high batting average.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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