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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2548786, member: 24314&quot;]I&#039;ll answer this [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>For some &quot;<span style="color: #006600">member</span>&quot; and (I don&#039;t care if the <span style="color: #336600">member</span> works in the British museum) to post disparaging <b><span style="color: #b35900">crap</span></b> like his and say in effect &quot;ALL TPGS&#039;s overgrade coins&quot; sets me off.&nbsp; I have news for all of you reading this.&nbsp; We each have our own grading standards; NEVERTHELESS the &quot;overgraders&quot; at the TPGS&#039;s and their dealer customers HAVE SET THE GRADING STANDARDS for all of us. That&#039;s why coins are not graded the way we learned.&nbsp; So now IMO, many of us have become conservative graders and unless he learns (as I have) the &quot;new system&quot; he&#039;ll get his eyes picked out!</p><p><br /></p><p>As for authentication errors, there is not a museum, collector, dealer, auction house, etc that has not made them in the past and will not continue to make them.&nbsp; Nevertheless, we are lucky to have TPGS&#039;s, museums, AND KNOWLEDGEABLE NUMISMATIST COLLECTORS to help weed out the fakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I&#039;m curious.&nbsp; Excluding U.S., foreign, and tokens from this; how many actually deceptive counterfeit ancients has our big-mouth been the first to identify to the world?&nbsp; That&#039;s all I&#039;ll say. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":muted:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Another thing for sure - we have not seen anything yet as far as deceptive counterfeits. </p><p><br /></p><p>PS There is only one moderator here who knows who I am.&nbsp; <span style="color: #ff0000">He agrees 100% with your comment.</span>&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I&#039;m trying to change <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> but some <span style="color: #006600">misinformed</span> comments set me off!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #006600">Edited words in &quot;snarky&quot; post.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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