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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 183435, member: 2761"](Sigh)... SGS is not a legitimate grading company. Period. Their main purpose is the market and package coins owned and/or assocaited with their eBay powerseller Aboncom for no other purpose than to drive up prices.   Bottom line is that they are dupping people to pay over an above what their "loose change" really is worth. You will see their ads with an MS70 "grade" stating a PCGS price for a given coin in "only" a MS67 grade is, say $5,000...and you are getting a MS70 specimen!! Look at it this way...Imagine advertising a manufactured home as a mansion. Sure it is a place to live and reside, but ask yourself the question is it right? Is it ethical?  You show pictures of a beautiful manision, but after you get your coin, it is no way near as they advertise. Your attempt to defend/justify SGS's (a la Aboncom) actions is deplorable in my books.  It is people like these crooks who are killing the hobby over the internet. Face it...the only SGS coins you see at ANY coin shows are from newbies that got taken by these crooks where they feel inclined to unload at a fraction of what SGS/Aboncom got from them...just to avoid embarrassment! Never use SGS as a grading company in the same sentence...use marketing, promotion (falsely) and packaging adjectives instead![/QUOTE]