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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3195305, member: 76863&quot;]No there aren&#039;t a thousand more like them for every one of those in reality.&nbsp; Times change we aren&#039;t in the very first days of problem coins being graded anymore, the overwhelming majority of people TODAY know exactly what they are and have for many years now.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The questions about them largely revolve around where the problem is or how to spot the problem because they would have MISSED it if it wasn&#039;t for the problem slabbing and would have really been hosed paying full problem free retail raw.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What does my membership length have to do with anything?&nbsp; What does what happened a decade ago have to do with anything?&nbsp; We&#039;re talking about the present not things that happened a decade ago.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That doesn&#039;t even begin to get into the fact that this forum as well as any coin forum is such a tiny microcosm of the overall collecting base that they&#039;ll all pretty irrelevant to the overall picture especially now a days.&nbsp; A very small percentage of collectors actually post on forums, IG and FB have more activity for coins than forums do now a days and thats just for the ones that actually bother to actively engage in a public manner online which many choose not to.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s partially true, the other part you left out was that people wanted them to start start grading them and not just body bag them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And what I have a problem with is people who made up their mind long ago about something and won&#039;t acknowledge that times change.&nbsp; The simple fact is that collectors today are far more aware of the availability of coins, pricing, and are just simply more educated than they were a decade ago when you were still active with coins.&nbsp; A lot has changed in the last 10 years and will again in the next 10, if someone is still repeating the same market conditions of buyer understanding a decade from now as today it will almost certainly be just as wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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