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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 3924241, member: 5629&quot;]Instead of giving a snide remark this time, I think I will actually answer the questions you posed (remembering that the premise is to sell them at auction):</p><p><b>Would you crack them out? </b></p><p><b>&nbsp; </b>Absolutely not!</p><p><b>Send them to PCGS or NGC?</b></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Absolutely not!</p><p><b>Any value in the old holders?</b></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Absolutely!</p><p><br /></p><p>Reading the responses in this thread has only reassured me of how far this hobby has fallen.&nbsp; I had been on hiatus from this hobby for several years due to life necessities.&nbsp; I had been able to become an active member in numismatics again only this past year and a half.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I had been met with on the US side has been legions of mindless devotees of the TPG &quot;cults&quot; filled with divine indwelling of greed fueled by a faith centered on the hope of profits.&nbsp; Free thought and opinion are equated with the ramblings of the madman and the fool.</p><p><br /></p><p>The quest for knowledge is eschewed while the demand for conformity is enforced upon all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We do not own any of the coins in our possession.&nbsp; We are simply curators of historic artifacts preserved for posterity.&nbsp;&nbsp; Numismatics is a study of history.&nbsp; It is a course in anthropology.&nbsp; It has its discipline in archaeology.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do any of you even know what ACG was?&nbsp; Do you know anything of Alan Hager?&nbsp; Have you ever heard of Accugrade or the Accugrade system?&nbsp; Have you even looked at the coins that are the subject of this thread?</p><p><br /></p><p>I find it ironic that the man who founded ACG worked so hard to try to educate the numismatic hobbyists to avoid exactly what is occurring in our hobby today with the TPGs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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