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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rld14, post: 525206, member: 16133&quot;]First,</p><p><br /></p><p>Welcome to the boards, you will get some fantastic advice on here and will learn a tremendous amount.&nbsp; I&#039;ll agree that the 03-S appears to have been cleaned.&nbsp; As Kanga (wisely) said, eBay is a very dangerous place to buy raw coins, particularly higher priced ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s in an ANACS, ICG, NGC or PCGS slab, it&#039;s genuine, and if not, they will buy it back from you.&nbsp; Of the Third Party Graders (TPGs) PCGS seems to be the one that gets the most respect and value followed closely by NGC and then by ANACS and ICG.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a general rule, other slabs are often either notorious for overgrading or missing problems, or what we call &quot;Self Slabbers&quot;, or a TPG that&#039;s actually owned by a dealer.&nbsp; These companies, the biggest seemingly is SGS, are famous for grossly overgrading items.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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