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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1705491, member: 15929&quot;]Grading does NOT &quot;add&quot; value as much as it &quot;insure&#039;s&quot; value for the &quot;grade&quot; based upon a panel of professional graders and what &quot;they&quot; are willing to guarantee, in terms of money, what the coin is worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading has always been about and will always be about money and the ONLY aspect of professional grading services such as PCGS and NGC is that they are willing to back their assigned grade with cash based upon the coins &quot;current market value&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not to say that if you overpay for a graded coin that the TPG&#039;s will guarantee your investent, but it is to say that they will guarantee the coin upto its &quot;current market value&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why professionally graded coins bring more money in the open market than their raw counterparts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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