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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2754396, member: 24314&quot;]Enlightenment?&nbsp; Enlightenment? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Lete&#039;s see.&nbsp; &quot;<span style="color: #5900b3">They follow their own standards</span>.&quot;&nbsp; Everybody knows that.&nbsp; Nothing enlightening yet. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<span style="color: #5900b3">Their standards set the market</span>&quot;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Who didn&#039;t know that?&nbsp; Still nothing enlightening. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<span style="color: #5900b3">An experienced</span> [and <b>knowledgeable</b>, I should add as many dealers with fifty years of experience don&#039;t know &quot;jack!&quot;] <span style="color: #5900b3">numismatist strives to understand </span>[each] <span style="color: #5900b3">TPGS standards</span>...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the name of the game!&nbsp; Since I&#039;ve read nothing enlighting yet, I&#039;ll add my own instruction - er, &quot;enlightenment&quot; here: While we strive to understand it, we don&#039;t need to agree that baggy coins with flash deserve excessive bumps in grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>That coin is over graded by at least two points! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Heritage is enlightened <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> enough to know it.&nbsp; Many here <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, including myself, appear to be enlighted also. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s see how much some <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> grading-label-reading registry set junkie is willing to shell out for the plastic mistake. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS More enlightenment:&nbsp; There is a difference between &quot;minor marks,&quot; &quot;very minor marks,&quot; and <b><span style="color: #ff0000">minuscule</span></b> marks. Coins in the top grades do not have &quot;minor&quot; anything. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Prime focal areas also mean something for &quot;enlightened&quot; numismatists.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll defend NGC with every keystroke when they are correct.&nbsp; It&#039;s even possible that I know most of the folks who touched that coin at NGC and CAC.&nbsp; IMO, they all screwed up on this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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