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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 2094399, member: 4920&quot;]Regarding your tangential question, you got me on that one. Luddite, here, and that&#039;s just the way I am, and there&#039;s nothing anybody can do about it. I actually have a black rotary-dial phone in my home, it&#039;s the truth. So, stereotype away. But, don&#039;t forget, I can go soft-headed on you like that, too. I can stereotype you, too. You&#039;re buried in these toners and have no choice but to play ball. I shan&#039;t, however, out of respect for the issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>On that, the issue, all precious medals are inclined to wear by reason of improper storage, not just gold. I&#039;m Italian and I have blue eyes and most Italians are inclined to have brown eyes but that doesn&#039;t mean my blue eyes are brown. I don&#039;t care what these Saints are inclined to do, wear is wear. You want to deny that to advance your market imperatives, you&#039;re playing head games.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom-line, that&#039;s your prerogative. You want to collect by third and fourth-party opinions, that&#039;s your business. I collect coins. You want to look at a coin that has wear and collect an opinion on whether you have permission to call that wear cabinet friction, that&#039;s your business. You want to look at a coin that has toning and collect an opinion on whether you have permission to call that toning NT, AT, or QT, that&#039;s your business. You want to look at a coin that&#039;s cleaned and collect an opinion on whether you have permission to call that cleaning conservation, that&#039;s your business. It&#039;s not my business. I don&#039;t collect permissions. I grade coins by my eyes, not third and fourth-party&#039;s eyes.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this day and age of ready-made grades, I wholeheartedly concede, that makes me an odd old bone. We&#039;ll let that go at, there are two types of collectors, the type that fights the idea of being pushed into and consumed by the marketing, and the other type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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