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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZoidMeister, post: 7899204, member: 114169&quot;]I&#039;ve put several inquiries out there to folks who are very knowledgeable in numismatics.&nbsp;&nbsp; Same response, . . . .&nbsp; &lt;crickets&gt; . . . . .</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve reached out to the primary seller of these as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; No response.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t engaged in collecting when these first supposedly hit the market (2004).&nbsp; Does anyone know who the first seller was?&nbsp; That would be a good start.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s absolutely no identifying information on the original holders that I&#039;ve seen. The &quot;clandestine&quot; nature of these is what has my curiosity piqued.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a third party grading company,&nbsp; it seems that you should have more information than the average collector on these.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m running into the same lack of information from the other TPG I see these encapsulated in.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a while, I thought there was a fiduciary relationship between the primary contemporary seller of these and the other TPG company, but they disavow any such relationship, other than customer / service provider.</p><p><br /></p><p>With so many of these on the market,&nbsp; it&#039;s odd that the original maker is unknown, especially for work that isn&#039;t yet 25 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>Z[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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