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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 179456, member: 112&quot;]I would say yes they can. To me the first strike nonsense was nothing but a marketing ploy - a way for the TPGs to increase the bottom line. I can&#039;t say as I blame them for that, the intent of any good business is to make a profit. I do however blame them for helping to take advantage of the less knowledgeable collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone here actually know of a knowledgeable collector who bought into this nonsense ? I doubt it, I doubt it strongly. The ones who submitted these coins for the first strike designation had one purpose and one purpose only in mind - to be able to sell the coins to inexperienced collectors. And to be quite honest, we can&#039;t blame the TPGs, or even the sellers, for the outrageous levels the prices for these coins reached. For that we can only blame the greed of the ineperienced. Almost without exception they bought the coins absolutely sure that they would one day be able to sell them for even more. </p><p><br /></p><p>Greed does strange things to people, but in the end they have only themselves to blame for it. Of course they never do, preferring instead to blame everyone else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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