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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 672285, member: 4350&quot;]They are supposed to be experts and their words are on the slabs.&nbsp; They get paid big money not to miss those things.&nbsp; If you sold that coin,&nbsp; you could have potentially lost money because they were inaccurate.&nbsp; Fair is fair but if they don&#039;t know what they are looking at,&nbsp; they shouldn&#039;t hold themselves up as authenticators of errors or die varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know a guy that sent in &quot;THE&quot; major 1994 DDR cent to a major grader and it came back as not being a doubled die.&nbsp; I told him to send it back and to have the graders look in the CP guide for photos.&nbsp; It came back the second time as properly attributed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Suppose that collector got the coin back as not being the 1994 DDR and spent it?</p><p><br /></p><p>He&#039;s lucky he had my email address<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Someone else may have lost out on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote a small letter to the Numismatist awhile back where another &quot;major attributor&quot;&nbsp; (Not Potter or Wexler, Diamond, Wiles or any of the better known die variety and error experts) Did an article on a 1910 D cent with an &quot;added D&quot;.&nbsp; Any rookie involved with cents could tell that the coin was a 1940 D with an altered 4.&nbsp; The guy said that after a microscopic view that he could see how the D was added.&nbsp; Bologna.</p><p><br /></p><p>I provided pictures and an explanation as to how far apart the 9 was from the 1 in the date and that the digits were completely different as far as spacing on a 1910 cent.&nbsp; It was impossible for it to be a 1910 with an added D.&nbsp; It had to be a 1940 D with portions of the 4 removed.&nbsp; The Numismatist published my letter , with the pictures and said that I was completely accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was another failure with respect to the identification of a simple, altered coin by a big expert.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should be making the kind of money they make to make the same mistakes that they make.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Bill</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: It&#039;s not harsh at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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