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Originally Posted by David Atkatz
Steve, is there any connection between Autograph Magazine (published by Steve Cyrkin), and Collectors Universe?
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no one is home so i will answer.
cyrkin was one of the founder of pcgs, and collectors universe, he invested 10,000 dollars for 10 percent of pcgs, the coin grading company, and ultimate ended up with over a million shares of stock (about 5 percent) in collectors universe stock when it brought in pcgs. He goes out of his way for no one to know this. no one is suppose to know. He wants people to think he is impartial, and in order to blog on autograph magazine live you have to follow the company line or you are out. Thus the PSA defenders who wants to keep their blogging card there and stay in his good graces.
Steve Z. was one of the biggest psa critics (read his old articles) until he had a road to Damascus conversion somehow. But PSA/DNA hasn't changed their stripes one bit along the way. Why are they the best thing since sliced bread now, but back then they were the object of his derision? I don't know.
http://www.pcgs.com/Articles/Detail/3740
http://clct.client.shareholder.com/s...10&CIK=1089143
page 57
http://zipper68.blogspot.com/2004/06/psadna-goof.html
http://zipper68.blogspot.com/2004/06...s-autopen.html
http://www.richardsimonsports.com/barrons.htm