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<p>[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1360003, member: 22004"]The heavy advertisers like Skyline are mixed bags. Many of them have loss leaders designed to bring in new customers, or other offerings where their profits are not substantial. But then you see over-graded raw coins that have altered surfaces which preclude numerical grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never seen companies like Skyline, Coast to Coast or Paul Sims represented at coin shows. I have seen numerous dealers, however, at coin shows who operate like them with "super-slider" coins that "should" grade MS64 if submitted. Such dealers who specialize in doctored, over-graded, problem rarities seem to operate with impunity, they are frankly liars. Many of them have lost their submission privileges at NGC and PCGS, some have been disfellowshipped by the ANA.</p><p><br /></p><p>People need to be more careful than ever and do their due diligence and exercise their legal rights with reasonable inspection periods so that they will get a second or third opinion on any given coin purchase.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Owle, post: 1360003, member: 22004"]The heavy advertisers like Skyline are mixed bags. Many of them have loss leaders designed to bring in new customers, or other offerings where their profits are not substantial. But then you see over-graded raw coins that have altered surfaces which preclude numerical grades. I have never seen companies like Skyline, Coast to Coast or Paul Sims represented at coin shows. I have seen numerous dealers, however, at coin shows who operate like them with "super-slider" coins that "should" grade MS64 if submitted. Such dealers who specialize in doctored, over-graded, problem rarities seem to operate with impunity, they are frankly liars. Many of them have lost their submission privileges at NGC and PCGS, some have been disfellowshipped by the ANA. People need to be more careful than ever and do their due diligence and exercise their legal rights with reasonable inspection periods so that they will get a second or third opinion on any given coin purchase.[/QUOTE]
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