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"Welcome, Mark.  \n\n\n\tNo matter where we stand with regards to the TPG and CAC, it is of course true that you have to like the coin.  The fact that a professional grader at a TPG has assigned a grade to a particular coin means that the variance of grading for similar coins is probably lessened...it does NOT mean that each and every coin with that grade is the same.  Some are going to be undergraded, some over graded.\n \n\n\n\tUltimately...YOU have to like the coin for the grade and $$$ you purchased.  And also like it without regard to either.\n \n\n\n\tI love Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles, a very popular (but expensive) coin to collect.  There are tens of thousands of coins graded MS65 or higher.  They're not all the same.  Some might have cleaner obverses or reverses....some might have 1 or 2 big nicks away from the fields or devices...others might not.....others might have a dozen tiny annoying scuff marks.   No 2 coins are alike and even at MS65 or any other grade the reaons for the grade vary from coin-to-coin.\n \n\n\n\tI'm not an expert on the coins you purchased, but I'm not surprised by the variability in grading.  And that variance does seem to increase as you go LOWER away from Mint State into the AU, EF, and VF grades.\n \n"
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