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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3140795, member: 71723"]There are many, MANY, M-A-N-Y coins, great coins, IMPORTANT coins, that have never been sent to a TPGS service, because they've been held by collectors since WAAAAAAAY before third party graders ever existed. They haven't been to an ANA, or a FUN, or a Central States, or a Baltimore Whitman, or a Long Beach, or an NYINC, ever. They are out there by the figurative gazillions. They are essentially "unknown" to the "coin market". Jeff Garrett doesn't know of them. Neither does Q. David Bowers. Neither does Rick Snow. Pick your favorite specialist.  I see them on a constant basis. Most of them trade locally and are AGAIN lost to "the market". Some are bought by dealers with a wider reach. If I had the working capital to bring them to the "show circuit", which I do not, I'd show you "fresh to the market" that would blow your socks off. They truly are "off the radar screen" coins, and their numbers are HUGE. A few, an itsy bitsy tiny fraction of them, will find their way to Philly next month, but darned few. It happens every time an ANA show comes to Pennsylvania. It happened in 2000, 2004, 2011, 2012, and it'll happen again in 2018, depending on how good the marketing of the show is. The Philly media market reaches 1/3 of the way across the state.[/QUOTE]