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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 450864, member: 4626&quot;]Even the top tiers have made false positives before... PCGS had admitted they were once fooled by fake micro-O Morgan dollars, and quite a few of them, a few years back.&nbsp; I&#039;ll grant TPGS may make mistakes less often than the general public, but they&#039;re not infallible.&nbsp; However this isn&#039;t precisely the issue... that&#039;s an issue of authentication, not grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes I can be fooled too... but if there&#039;s that much at stake and I can&#039;t tell the difference between a fake and a real one myself, I&#039;m not touching one with a ten foot pole, especially if a dealer has no return policy if it ends up being fake (which is also bad customer service, if nothing else).</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of dealers realizing that very few want to risk buying a fake Trade dollar (and don&#039;t want to risk their reputation by themsleves getting fooled with a fake) get most or all of their Trade dollars slabbed, for sake of authentication; the <i>grading</i> of the coin is incidental.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I&#039;ve said before, this is the one exception I&#039;m willing to make... if there&#039;s a huge risk of a coin being fake, I am willing to pay for expert <i>authentication</i>.&nbsp; It is reasonably provable on an objective factual basis whether a coin is real or not.&nbsp; It is so-called expert <i>grading</i>, which is just the subjective opinion of a handful of graders, that I&#039;m never willing to pay for.</p><p><br /></p><p>And even when I am willing to make such an exception, I still would refuse to pay a single penny over what the coin would otherwise sell for raw.&nbsp; The expert authentication may affect my decision as to whether or not to buy it, but not how much I will pay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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