"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector.
This is a problem with TPGs...they grade the coin and people take it as gospel!!! When you try to tell them otherwise they shoot you and your 50 years of numismatic experience down.
I doubt any experienced dealer would buy this coin as stated on the holder but many collectors would and that is a problem. The whole idea behind TPG's starting in the 1970's was to make it so that coins could be traded sight unseen and sold in the investment community. Not so anymore.
I want to believe that TPG started out as an altruistic venture that was gonna benefit all, and that this venture just got corrupted over time into a money making machine to keep those $10 bills coming in.
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