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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8063648, member: 24314&quot;]Actually, it is very easy to figure out (if you&#039;ve been paying attention to Jacks posts all over the Internet) but the &quot;who&quot; is not as important as the message.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In my experience, over the decades, the counterfeiters realized they would have more luck testing their &quot;work&quot; out at the top two TPGS first.&nbsp; Very often, anything detected by the top two goes to ANACS, SEGS, or ICG to see if it will pass them.&nbsp; That goes for &quot;detail&quot; coins too from honest dealers/collectors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the thing to take away.&nbsp; All the TPGS make mistakes.&nbsp; The experience of the graders and the volume of submissions influences the error rate.&nbsp; Ever since &quot;detail&quot; coins were slabbed, the error rate went up.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thirty-six or twenty-two coins over five years of submissions (possibly thousands of the specific coins in the chart) is not the end of the world considering how good those C&#039;F&#039;s are that passed professional dealers and auction houses too!&nbsp;&nbsp; Also note that when one gets passed as OK at a TPGS, they get more of the same fakes sent in until they are finally detected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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