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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2113631, member: 71723&quot;]Question: Do YOU PERSONALLY believe there is a repeatable distinction&nbsp; between a MS70 and a MS69 coin? If so, then you get what you got. If not, don&#039;t play the game! Buy the 69.</p><p><br /></p><p>At Portland ANA, I watched two things happen that made me mutter to myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>1) I watched Lee Minshull drag a hand truck to the U.S. Mint booth and stack three huge cartons on it (after the mint&#039;s people ran his credit card), then schlep the whole operation up to NGC, NOT FILL OUT A SINGLE LETTER ON A NGC FORM (telling them &quot;70&#039;s only, you fill out the forms&quot;) and threw the same credit card at them. I asked NGC what that was about when I gave them MY order the next day. They said &quot;Homestead 5 ounce pucks. If they don&#039;t make 70, we send them back without slabbing.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>2) I watched Mike Ellis sit at the QA [check] booth and write out longhand on slips explaining why a bunch of NGC AND PCGS slabs graded MS70 and PF70 wouldn&#039;t get a QA sticker.</p><p><br /></p><p>SOMEBODY has to be high in this scenario, and it just might be those chasing 70 labels. If the show had been in Colorado, I would be SURE they were ALL high.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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