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Message:: [QUOTE="JPeace$, post: 2125010, member: 42727"]He's now joined up with Barry at Art n Coin TV. Last night on the show, I saw another troubling sign and PCGS was involved.  This has to do with selling labels. Facts as I know them:<ul> <li>U.S. Mint brought 2K burnished ASE's to the Baltimore show to sell to the attendees</li> <li>These are the same coins being sold by the U.S. Mint on their website to anyone who wants one.</li> <li>PCGS was offering to grade them at the show with a special label: First Strike and "Baltimore" on the label</li> <li>This is where it gets troubling, they labeled the coins "SP", not PF.</li> </ul>Of course, Barry and Jimmy were playing up the rarity factor.  They even went so far as to loosely compare its rarity to some Zerbe Morgan Dollar Proofs.  They were taking the opportunity to sell these at a the low, low, low, low price of $119.00 each for 70's. I don't begrudge the TPG's for playing the label game in offering different label backgrounds for coins, but I don't care for FS or Early Releases and I certainly don't like this new SP designation for the very same coins they've been designating as MS/PF coins for years.[/QUOTE]