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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2680562, member: 24314&quot;]<span style="color: #5900b3">[USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] I understood what you posted until this at the end:</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">&quot;Yea, but they aren&#039;t divulging any <b>secrets</b> or really anything that helpful.&nbsp; It&#039;s just like a fireside story chat of bar stories.&quot;</span> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">Can you give an example of a <b>grading</b> &quot;secret&quot; that one of the &quot;big guys&quot; could divulge?&nbsp; I cannot think of any grading secrets.&nbsp; It&#039;s not like telling us how to tone a coin so it passes a TPGS.&nbsp; Perhaps the grading secrets are so secret that only the finalizers know them.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><br /></p><p>mikenoodle, posted: I earlier questioned that what they do is value coins more than grade them. If this is what they do, they should be Valuing (appraising) services, not grading companies.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <span style="color: #5900b3">Perhaps the TPGS actually d</span>o<b><span style="color: #b30000"> grade</span></b> <span style="color: #5900b3">coins rather than place a value (as they claim) on them.&nbsp; This is easily confirmed.&nbsp; That&#039;s why I would think that each of us posting here (especially an educator such as yourself) should know that a slabbed MS-65 1880-S Morgan dollar can have several different values - even when sold in the same auction.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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