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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 987639, member: 112&quot;]No, it is not a mistake. And no all Walkers should not be graded by one standard.</p><p><br /></p><p>The issue at hand, putting problem coins in problem free slabs, is entirely different from what you are talking about. </p><p><br /></p><p>Why ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Because coins where pretty much the entire mintage is known to have been weakly struck come direct from the mint that way. That is the distinguishing factor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins like the one in this thread, problem coins, only become problem coins long after they have left the mint. They were not issued by the mint corroded, harshly cleaned, having altered surfaces, or damaged. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it should be abolished. The rarity, value, or pedigree of any coin should have no bearing whatsoever on the grading standards used to assign grades to coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No I do not believe they should. I never agreed with them using Genuine holders to begin with. I do not believe that any problem coins should be in a slab of any kind, never have and never will. From the very beginning the premise was that only problem free coins would ever be slabbed by NGC or PCGS and that in my opinion is how it should be. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only reason that the TPGs ever relented on this issue was money. They&#039;re not stupid, they fully realized that they were running out of coins to slab. There are after all only so many out there. And in order to stay in business they had to come up with a new source of coins. They had one ready made and waiting in the wings - problem coins. Problem coins far outnumber problem free coins - everybody knows this. For every 1 problem free coin there are 8 problem coins. And by agreeing to slab problem coins the TPGs ensured that they could stay in business for another 50 years or more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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