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Message:: [QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2549455, member: 76194"]I purposely stayed away from this thread due to the heat, but now that things are calming down I may as well give my two cents. What did you guys expect from the TPG that brought us the "Colosseum Hoard", the "Seven Hills Hoard", the "Golden Age Hoard" and the "Byzantium Hoard".  The only thing the coins in these hoards have in common is some coin flipping outfit writing a big check to NGC to get them to invent a new hoard that the con artists could market and scam unsuspecting customers with, making them think these overpriced common (and often badly cleaned, tooled, or damaged) coins that are otherwise not related to each other all came from some ultra-special hoard and worth big money. If you sell your integrity for a check and invent hoards that never existed, knowing that unsuspecting and uneducated consumers are going to get scammed by the people who wrote you the check because of their trust in NGC as a reputable US coin grading service, then you deserve no respect from me or any other ancients collector. If I did something similar in my line of work, I'd be prosecuted for fraud and my law license would be permanently revoked. Isn't it sad when lawyers have stronger rules of professional conduct than a TPG? PS: If you take issue with what I wrote, that's fine. It's just my honest opinion, and that's how I feel about them.[/QUOTE]