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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TubeRider, post: 2460634, member: 76481&quot;]Insider, no you did not get that exactly right.&nbsp; Most of these coins were, in my eyes, beautiful 65&#039;s and probably 98% others would think so too.&nbsp; The lesson he was giving me was one of quality, one of finding the top tier 65, a 65 that he would allow in his collection, a 5 with a serious shot at 6.&nbsp; His level of knowledge and connoisseurship far exceeded mine and there was something about each of these coins that bothered him.&nbsp; His motive was simple, to spend hours teaching me a fraction of what he knows to make me a better grader.&nbsp; Some of these coins did have problems and had slipped through the TPG&#039;s, happens all the time.&nbsp; Somebody thumbs a coin and it slips into a holder.&nbsp; A few years later that thumbing shows up.&nbsp; Many coins in the SS class were buy-backs that the TPG&#039;s took off the market because they had slipped through.&nbsp; A lot of coins with minute wheel marks that had made it into holders and again fooled the graders in our class since the grades were covered for them too. When I came home I was shocked at what I saw on many of my coins.&nbsp; The TPG&#039;s graders in these classes very often disagree with each other on a grade and very often disagree with what is in the holder from there own company.&nbsp; TPGers make mistakes, that is what the whole crack out game is about.&nbsp; When asked how long he spends per coin in the grading room one of my instructors held up a slabbed, common date Peace and said, &quot;A coin like this...6 seconds max.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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