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Message:: [QUOTE="JCB1983, post: 1317881, member: 23885"]Thanks Doug.  I just find it interesting that we can be so blind as to a slab.  I am a prime example of this.  I would have never bought that bust half AU-53, from a previous thread..at the price I did unless it was PCGS slabbed.  As it turned out, I grossly overpaid, and you along with other experts even pointed out that it had been dipped.  Excuse me "properly restored."  After receiving the half in the mail, and doing research it is clear that the half was dipped.  For crying out loud there is a black eyeball.  For all of their greatness they slabbed this one problem free?  As far as realized prices, I have been studying them.  In looking through realized prices of HA it is clear that there is a disparity between what someone will pay for a coin that is not graded by PCGS.  At least with Bust halves, and barbers from what I can see.  Are these graders from NGC and ANACS not supposed to be experts?  Clearly they are.  Maybe I could make a wise investment by purchasing NGC and ANACS problem free, cracking them out of their slabs, and sending them into PCGS to get slabbed.  I am not so much disturbed by what I am seeing, as I am intrigued.  I appreciate learning from you all.[/QUOTE]