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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1409878, member: 112&quot;]What do you expect me to be able to do Paul - cite books, magazine articles, numismatic monographs etc by page number and author ? Sorry, but I can&#039;t do that. I&#039;ve read thousands of coin books, articles etc. And I can&#039;t even begin to recall what they all were or who wrote them. What I can recall are things like when the minting processes changed and were no longer used. As well as a million other little facts and tidbits.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t make comments like this based on my opinion Paul, I make them based on what I know, based on the knowledge I have acquired over the years. I did specialize in world gold for quite a few years. I managed to learn a few things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can I prove without doubt that what I am saying is true, no I can&#039;t. You can either take my word for it that no mint in the world adjusted the weight of a coin or planchet with a file by the year 1900 or disagree. Works for me either way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it possible that those marks are remnants from what happened to the planchet - roller marks ? Yeah it&#039;s possible, but I think it highly unlikely. They appear way too deep, too sharp to be roller marks left over after the coin was struck. So I still believe NGC screwed up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, I know, how dare I doubt the opinion of a TPG. Well, deal with it, I dare. And unlike most people who just blindly accept whatever the TPG has to say, I do not. I have no problem at all with doubting them and I speak up when I do. And I do that mainly in the hope that others will learn to do so as well. I have seen them make way, way, too many blatant mistakes. Especially when it comes to world coinage. When I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that NGC slabs Russian counterfeit ducats as genuine Netherlands ducats - yeah, you bet I&#039;ll question them slabbing this coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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