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Message:: [QUOTE="digibyte, post: 1755170, member: 56443"]I was interested in purchasing a complete set of Grover Cleveland presidential dollars for both 22nd and 24th terms. I didn't want to pay a lot for them as they aren't particularly a good investment. In short, i wanted high grade coins for as little as possible. I found what appeared to be mint state set P, S and D for $4 each which was okay especially compared with others on eBay. One coin was a cameo and the other two were mint coins. I purchased them and they came in a slab which was surprising given that the highest grade mint coins in the presidential series are only listed for $8 to $10 each. I wasn't really looking that closely at the slab when I bought the coins, but when they arrived they were all graded MS70 including the cameo. Taking a close look you could see they had some bag marks on them. Still all uncirculated and in nice condition, but no way were these MS70s. I didn't expect MS70 coins and I would have been happy with these if they were graded properly. Having an obvious crazy grade makes it worse than having a raw coin. I looked up the grading company (SGS) and they were listed as 'bottom of the barrel'. The price was right. The coins are acceptable. But for SGS to grade every coin the same and obviously way over graded was stupid on their part. They actually got less money for these than most of the raw ones that had bag marks.[/QUOTE]