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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2065971, member: 15309&quot;]I&#039;m sorry Mike, but that post is pure garbage.&nbsp; TPGs were created remove the bias of dealers grading their own coins.&nbsp; If as a result of third party grading, some collectors/investors have decided not to learn about coin grading, that is not the fault or intention of the TPGs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, you think that the hobby of coin collecting would be better served by less collectors, less money, and lower prices because it will spur young people to become coin collectors.&nbsp; I think that is insane.&nbsp; Children often find coin collecting an enjoyable hobby.&nbsp; By the time they become teenagers, 99% of those child collectors start spending all of their money on girls, cars, girls, college, girls, partying, girls, and did I mention GIRLS.&nbsp; Often, when those collectors reach their middle age years and are married with children, many rediscover the hobby.&nbsp; That dynamic of collecting has existed long before the inception of the TPGs.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, being exclusionary to the uninformed is the perfect recipe to kill the hobby, not save it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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