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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 1534883, member: 1674&quot;]This tells me much about your collecting habits and the types of coins that are in your collection.&nbsp; You are what professionals call a &quot;price shopper&quot;.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t bad necessarily, but it does mean that you will have few if any undergraded coins in your collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I know a number of dealers who offer coins that are conservatively to very conservatively graded, and if you choose to buy from them they you will not be able to pull out your CDN and buy at the prices listed because when you buy from dealers who grade like those guys you will pay a strong premium for their material but you have the confidence of know you got something conservatively graded and the possibility that it was undergraded.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know a couple dozen extremely talented dealers who make their entire (very comfortable) living from looking through other dealers&#039; inventories to locate coins that are undergraded and then getting them into the proper holder.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am sorry to say it but one the unfortunate parts of reviewing many collections over the years is that I have to explain to older collectors and/or their heirs that the quality of a coin within a grade (or its surface problems) can significantly affect value; and your &quot;crapshoot&quot; comment regarding raw coins leads me to believe that this might apply to your purchasing behaviour.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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