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To get to the meat of your question I think the coin was spot treated to remove whatever was there. If you notice in the TV the area under and around Liberty appears darker than the dealer photo. Now… (View Post)

Anyone can grade from photos, it is practically a necessity today. That is not the question, the question is how accurate can anyone grade from photos. But there is no simple answer to that as it dep… (View Post)

Its not relative at all, there is hard data, just look at the numbers, over 10 million minted, I'm not going to look up the numbers but I'll bet there are over 10K in TPG holders in all colors and gr… (View Post)

Hard pass, even if that was removed there appears to be some residual remnants of whatever it was. (View Post)

It took many tries and many years before the numismatic community recognized and embraced TPG's, even today some collectors shun TPG's. Same is true when CAC got started, CMQ is still relatively new … (View Post)