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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3223033, member: 24314&quot;]Pickin and Grinin, posted: &quot;If a person/company has their set standards, it can only be subjective if the standards are being changed.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">According to a study done by PCGS, with no change in individual or company standards very few professional graders have been able to sustain an 80% accuracy (if I remember correctly).&nbsp; The accuracy increased to an acceptable percentage - 90 something - when another grader and a finalizer were added to the opinion.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Lehigh96, posted: &quot;The market grading system allows the graders to evaluate each coin for all of its attributes, rather than simply looking for surface marks. <b>It is more complex and more subjective</b>, the two primary reasons why people resist it!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">IMO, It was done this way to help keep normal mortals from ever being able to grade as a market grader needs to know the up-to-date value of coins.&nbsp; Which come weakly struck, which are rare and which are common, etc.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Pickin and Grinin, posted: &quot;incredible luster is no doubt a key factor in the grading process. (<i><span style="color: #b300b3">AGREE for most TPG&#039;s I know.&nbsp; Luster and eye appeal are more important than friction wear or weak strike!</span></i>)&nbsp; Overlooking Key circulation damage is different, <b>circulation damage </b>is what makes an AU coin what it is.&quot;&nbsp; <i><span style="color: #b300b3">Actually <b>NOT</b>, damage does not lower an MS coin to AU unless of course, you are one of those out of the mainstream &quot;net&quot; graders. Not putting words in your mouth but perhaps you meant to write &quot;circulation wear (?).</span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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