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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;goldmark, post: 1592790, member: 38168&quot;]No serious German collector will continue to view this coin as mintstate, and where it financially matters will stay away! And this grading is not the only bad one I&#039;ve seen lately.</p><p><br /></p><p>The collectors that accept the grades assigned by the TPGs, without questioning it at each buy and don&#039;t make their own assessments will lose out in the long run. The German/European market is new for the TPGs and must first be won, as of now most numismatists of name (Franquinet, Lanz...) don&#039;t give them much credit, actually consider them to be borderline incompetent. I&#039;ve recently visited a German collector to get a better understanding how they grade coins, and among good examples of fittingly graded coin, this dealer had an entire box of misattributions/misgradings and even misauthentications (slabbed fakes). This promo didn&#039;t help to consolidate their point at all, the grade for the coin is inconsistent in itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>This slab is a good piece of reference for future conversations with fellow collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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