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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pilkenton, post: 1042464, member: 23961&quot;]I frequent two shops in the area.&nbsp; Both places know me.&nbsp; Both know and have mutual respect for each other.&nbsp; Their prices are comparable to each other.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the deal.&nbsp; This happens every time.&nbsp; I&#039;ll go to one dealer and buy what he grades as an MS coin.&nbsp; I&#039;ll go to the other shop and he&#039;ll grade it at least two grades lower than the other guy.&nbsp; This works both ways.&nbsp; Why is this?&nbsp; I don&#039;t tell the dealer where I got the coin.&nbsp; I don&#039;t tell them the grade I was told it was when I bought it.&nbsp; They know I&#039;m not trying to sell it.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been visiting both shops for over twenty years.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had hundreds of coins appraised by them both.&nbsp; BTW, when I buy a coin elsewhere, they both grade it lower than what I assumed it was when I bought it.&nbsp; Never once have they graded it exactly or higher than what I was told it was when I bought it.&nbsp; How can anyone trust a dealer when there is so much of this going on?&nbsp; I have never paid more than a hundred dollars on a single coin.&nbsp; I would be scared to buy a mucho expensive coin, not trusting the dealer&#039;s grades.&nbsp; I&#039;m tempted to crack open a graded coin and take it to both of them and ask their opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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