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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 420098, member: 112&quot;]So let me ask you Lehigh, when is that I am not being presumptuous if I disagree with a grade assigned by a TPG ? Is that only when you happen to agree with me too ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone who thinks the TPG&#039;s don&#039;t make mistakes, is making a very big mistake themselves. They make them, we all know they make them. And on the coins where other knowledgeable members post pics of a slabbed coin and ask our opinions of the grade. In those cases where I disagree with the TPG grade, and the members have the coins in hand also disagree with the TPG grade, and every one else they have look at the coin, in hand, and they disagree with the TPG grade - all I am looking at in those cases is a photograph too. </p><p><br /></p><p>Am I being presumptuous in those cases as well ? The coin was still graded by 3 TPG graders and a finalizer - all in hand, while all I had was a pic. So what is it that is different with this coin ? Am I any less likely to be right - I&#039;m still just looking at a pic.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the grading standards I use are not my standards, I had absolutely nothing to do with writing them. They are the written standards of the ANA and the written standards of PCGS and all the other written standards. I just follow what is written. And that is where I differ from many people. For many will read the grading books and then grade coins every time they see one, by memory. Me, I get the book out, nearly every time, just to make sure I&#039;m not forgetting something or making a mistake. So it is not my standards that are stringent, it is just that I follow the written standards to the letter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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