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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;t-d, post: 67976, member: 3725&quot;]I just got a 4 piece lot of PCGS 2005 satin finish nickels.&nbsp; They came graded as MS66SF.&nbsp; One of them has a brown spot on the coin and another has smudging.&nbsp; The other two are nice enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have bought some of the SGS graded coins for 1/3rd to 1/4 the price of PCGS graded coins.&nbsp; They all have been nice coins--probably not what they were graded at, but very nice.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In the end doesn&#039;t one pay for the coin not the grading?&nbsp; Abon is grading his own coins.&nbsp; Isn&#039;t that what coin dealers and collectors have been doing from the beginning?&nbsp; The problem with ebay is that you can&#039;t really look at the coin before buying so you do have to rely on reputation (feedback) of the seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>Saying all this, I&#039;m thankful for the comments on this site about SGS which have been a good warning about the possible quality of the coins.&nbsp; But a name grading company is no assurance that the coins are at the graded level.</p><p><br /></p><p>Midas is right in pointing out the variance between not only grading companies but graders within the same grading company.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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