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Grading Will Never Synchronize

Several years ago, a good longtime customer came to the store I owned at the time to purchase a somewhat better-date U.S. $20 Saint-Gaudens double eagle in Choice Mint State-63 quality. We happened to have three specimens in stock, so I showed them all to him to pick the one he liked the best.

After he looked at all of them and was

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