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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 3396305, member: 73489&quot;]I&#039;m sure they are under alot of pressure, especially newer, younger graders.</p><p><br /></p><p>John Albanese says he looks at 450 coins a day.&nbsp; That&#039;s alot to decide on a CAC sticker or not even though he&#039;s not starting from scratch with each coin, he has a rough estimate of the grade from the TPG.&nbsp; Still, that&#039;s 8 hours of coins assuming 1 minute per coin.&nbsp; And that assumes no breaks, handling times to look at each coin, or work on the business side of things for CAC during the day.&nbsp; The more he handles coins or works on corporate stuff, the less time he has per coin.&nbsp; If he spends 1/2 his day on non-grading business, then he&#039;s spending about 30 seconds per coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could be wrong, but I recall an ex-grader or current grader at a site years ago saying that he/they spent about 20-30 seconds per coin, and he couldn&#039;t recall many times when they approached let alone exceeded 1 minute.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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