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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MorganFred, post: 33851, member: 1779&quot;]Thatsa fact! You might enjoy one of my online groups in which a couple guys swear that not only did Franklin Roosevelt know about Pearl Harbor in advance, he engineered it! They live in their own belief world written by H.G. Welles and Beatrix Potter. To misquote Rumsfeld, &quot;They live in a world as they would wish it to be, not as it is.&quot;. Such belief worlds defy fact and reality.</p><p><br /></p><p>On my belief that submission of a low-tiered/untiered TPG&#039;s slab to PCGS might be contaminated by the TPG&#039;s slab and should be cracked out of said slab, it&#039;s certainly nothing I can prove conclusively. I have only my own experiences with which to judge. Statistically, my N sample is far too low to be significant, so I have to go with the anecdotal and crack out the low-tiered/untiered TPG-graded coins. I could be wrong; it&#039;s been known to happen before (there was this incident in 1968...).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;d do it. I also buy them already slabbed by PCGS or NGC if I&#039;m after a particular coin for my collection (and by inference, for long-term value appreciation) and don&#039;t want to take a chance or can&#039;t find any suitable alternative. While the top four TPGs might have their shortcomings and they are not necessarily consistent nor accurate even among and between themselves, they&#039;re way ahead of the low-tiered and untiered companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also a little bit of the gambler in me. I&#039;ll buy raw and low-tiered/untiered TPG slabbed coins based on my queries to the sellers, on careful analysis of a particular coin, and on my instincts. I&#039;m not wrong often, but I certainly do get it wrong from time to time. For me, it&#039;s part of the game which is an awful lot of fun. When it stops being fun, I&#039;ll get out.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Is there such a word as &quot;untiered&quot;?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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