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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SPP Ottawa, post: 1710374, member: 39508&quot;]I would assume the fairly recent addition of &#039;plus&#039; grades has allowed PCGS a bit a wiggle room for coins that &#039;sit on the fence&#039;, so to speak. I think also that as more coins are submitted, they have a better gauge of grade ranges for a particular series, and coins graded 10 years ago may indeed be measured by slightly different criteria if being reconsidered... having a photographic database of other similar high graded coins has to help as well. I have not seen any evidence of &#039;grading creep&#039; with PCGS in recent years, in fact, I found they have tightened their belt considerably on the conservative side (at least with Canadian coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, a serious collector, who specializes in a specific series, will (or should) have pretty strong grading skills of their own. Some days, PCGS simply does not get it correct - it is an opinion after all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one coin in my registry set, that I will definitely have reconsidered, it is head and shoulders above anything at a similar grade... but this time, they will have the rest of my series to compare the coin (being reconsidered) against.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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