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Message:: [QUOTE="lkeigwin, post: 1224269, member: 30400"]I understand the sentiment but I think it's a little extreme. Do you see no real benefits to having respectable TPG's? Before TPG's newer collectors had no way of knowing if the seller's coin was altered, cleaned, colored, tooled or counterfeit. Or even if the seller's opinion on the grade and his valuation were correct. Today they stand an excellent chance of getting a correctly graded coin and, to some extent, even determining its market value. Sure, the TPG's make some mistakes. If they're even 99.9% correct that .1% error results in 2,000 mistakes each year at PCGS. But odds are very high the correct call has been made. And if it hasn't, there's a real guarantee to fall back on. It's my opinion that this hobby has been held together because of the TPG's and it is safer for beginners. It's not perfect but it's a far cry from what we had 30 or 40 years ago.Lance.[/QUOTE]