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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8276974, member: 24314&quot;]<i><span style="color: #660033">I was done looking at this thread but the <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> in me made me open the new alerts.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">I <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> don&#039;t &quot;sugar coat&quot; so here is a dose of reality <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie23" alt=":bigtears:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> for anyone still looking at this thread:</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">Enough has been written about the &quot;Wild West Decades &quot; long before many here were born.&nbsp; Most of you are very lucky you were not around to get your pants taken off! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Pickin and Grinin, posted: &quot;We got early on that there was a value to the coin. No doubt, Just most of the not worth it crowd was all about the effort involved to get rid of it.&nbsp; So, yeah as a dealer, it&#039;s a no brainer, as a collector. and a grader/ wait sorry authentiator. <b>You should be advocating for a clean standard.&quot;</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Nice idea if we lived in fantasyland.&nbsp;&nbsp; I seem to remember that way back in 1986 a bunch of ex-wolfs got together to protect the ignorant sheep from other wolves.&nbsp; As I remember, they tried what you advocate.&nbsp; Remember the &quot;body bag&quot; rip-off&nbsp; all the sheep complained about?&nbsp; It appears that &quot;Clean&quot; coins are uncommon. <b>News Flash</b>:&nbsp; Truly original, as made coins get fewer every year in every series.&nbsp; Thankfully, a bunch of unmolested coins have been encapsulated to save them for future collectors.&nbsp; And...unfortunately, <b>there are no STANDARDS anymore. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </b></span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Pickin and Grinin, posted: &quot;There is a plague of details and egregious detials coins making it into circulated grades. If we don&#039;t as collectors keep an eye out. I fear it could get out of control.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">I&#039;m not one of those professionals who claim to have handled a trillion coins in their career; however, most of the CIRCULATED coins I&#039;ve seen DESERVE to be in &quot;details&quot; holders for something.&nbsp; Furthermore if the majority of &quot;collectors&quot; actually had a good &quot;eye,&quot; there may have been less of a need for grading services and authentication only services would be the norm.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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