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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 763106, member: 22004&quot;]I received an auction coin in an NGC MS65 slab the other day. Here&#039;s a link of the image:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.asp?auction=2781&amp;lot=1302" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.asp?auction=2781&amp;lot=1302" rel="nofollow">http://www.teletrade.com/coins/lot.asp?auction=2781&amp;lot=1302</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I stopped in at a local coin shop, the owner, was surprized that the coin had made it into a &quot;65&quot; holder, he said &quot;it has a hole in its head&quot;.&nbsp; Maybe my visual attention is not very acute, but it seems that the auction companies are trying to produce the most attractive images of coins for sale, using lighting and other technology to make buyers bid. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When I tried to pull a bid recently in a Heritage Auction, the auction specialist underlined that he would take the action just once &quot;as a courtesy&quot;, but warned that he could not do so in the future.&nbsp; I would opine that the auction companies do in house profiling of customers, like many businesses these days, and use the profiling to create a more profitable business practice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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