I grade Saints pretty liberally when it comes to flatness on the chest and knees, but when the eagles's chest is rubby - AU. A few too many marks for 58, so I agree with 55. I don't think a gold CAC would be given, but certainly a green sticker. I wouldn't take it out off the OGH. Being a better date I don't think it has a shot at a 61 or 62.
Not sure I voted on this before, and I didn't want to scan the posts to pollute my vote. I have this at AU53.
I'm thinking hard about how (or even whether) I'd change XenForo to make it more clear to people that they're posting on a thread where they haven't read all the comments...
Given the inscrutably generous dispensation afforded gold coins by TPGs and my own grading orneriness, I couldn't it give more than an MS 61.
Curious...what makes you say "inscrutably generious" with regards to TPG grading ? I presume you are referring to market vs. technical grading ? Also, why focus on gold coins relative to others ?
A very good and fair question. Yes, it is exactly in this AU/BU cusp that I see TPG technical grading standards succumb to the subjective vagueries of "eye appeal", market forces, and other nebulous factors that I have yet to witness any TPG service articulate definitively and consistently. Perhaps, emergent AI will give our hobby/passion a quantifiable precision that TPGs have so far been unable/unwilling to provide. Film (and possible obsolescence) at 11.