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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2345988, member: 24314&quot;][USER=44004]@Mainebill[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>Where to start?&nbsp; How about this: IMO, I cannot see any reason to send the pictured coins in for slabbing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is some unsolicited &quot;tough love.&quot;&nbsp; IMO PGCS got most of it right.&nbsp; Any collector/dealer here who thinks PCGS was &quot;brutal&quot; needs to stop buying &quot;raw&quot; coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just curious, how many times have you sent a &quot;details coin&quot; from one service and got it &quot;straight&quot; at another?&nbsp; Have your &quot;hits&quot; made you more money than the wasted fees?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>With the 1858-S, there is room for discussion.&nbsp; The photos are blurred; yet my first impression is the coin is not worth slabbing due to low grade, unattractiveness, and ED.&nbsp; I do not see any damage on the blurred image.&nbsp; If you think you can dip this coin and make it better...I won&#039;t go there.</p><p><br /></p><p>You need to study John&#039;s more constructive, and kinder words as I just removed most of what I wrote here at first.&nbsp; Because I don&#039;t suffer long-time, supposedly expert dealers whining about TPGS opinions when the whiners and those in agreement with them NEED TO LEARN HOW TO GRADE FOR THEMSELVES!&nbsp; Opinions are plenty...hopefully we&#039;ll see more useful ones from more knowledgeable posters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next:&nbsp; There has been an influx of EXTREMELY DECPTIVE counterfeits - especially in the Large cent series.&nbsp; I was informed THIS MORNING that at least one TPGS HAS BEEN working closely with EAC to unmask the new fakes, many of which have already slipped past the TPGS.&nbsp; In many cases, the fakes have been circulated, corroded, recolored and beat up.&nbsp; AS WITH ANY BRAND NEW VERY DECEPTIVE FAKE&nbsp; - FROM THE BEGINING OF COIN AUTHENTICATION SERVICES (1971) in this country - THE FIRST FEW ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, SLIP PAST.&nbsp; Hang on because you all have not seen ANYTHING YET.&nbsp; I promise that.&nbsp; The TPGS are running scared but just for now!&nbsp; They are our best defense against counterfeiting.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>NOTE:&nbsp; TPGS are like computers,&nbsp; JUNK IN/JUNK OUT <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie60" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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