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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 683234, member: 16948&quot;]True Mark, very true, but IMHO that is no argument for encouraging people to, in essence, not worry about the grade of coin because it is graded by a well-known TPG and then also has a green bean added to that TPG holder.&nbsp; I realize that TPG&#039;s have made it more comfortable to buy coins sight unseen - but unfortunately, as you and everyone else has seen - it is a false comfort.&nbsp; And it has also lead to the lack of encouragement to collectors to become educated FIRST, especially by some of the &quot;big gun&quot; TPG promoters.&nbsp; So IMHO all the discussions about TPG and CAC should include emphasis on the collectors FIRST caring about the quality of the coin and learning to grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I get frustrated when some of my customers refuse to even look at a coin in in a holder different than what they are focused on, or even a raw coin.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell you how many times I go ahead and place raw and other TPG coins of the same year/grade/price range (sometimes even less expensive) in front of them, and they see that the other TPG coin is of better quality than the one in TPG holder they are focused on, but they refuse to consider buying it due to it not fitting in their registry set or because all their coins are in only one type of holder.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, the registry business has invented a lot of what I call &quot;coin robots&quot; (and I am the first to admit it the invention of registry competition was/is a huge marketing coo!) but TPG&#039;s (and now CAC) have also lead to the laziness of coin collectors to learn what a quality coin and authentic coin should look like, in essence sacrificing the necessity and importance of coin education.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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