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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;imrich, post: 2901224, member: 22331&quot;]The &quot;study&quot; is a long term multi-year on-going process consisting of many coins which basicly show the same results of other independent studies, as that reported in the May 26, 2003 edition of Coin World.&nbsp; Individuals whined that those past studies weren&#039;t of large enough or diverse enough samplings. It&#039;s believed that a sampling no larger than a daily eBay Numismatic offering will prove the proposition of inequal grading standards. The proposition that couldn&#039;t be proven is what could happen when an expensive coin is believed &quot;trashed&quot; by a details slab, and then resubmitted to receive a grade increasing the same TPG publicly stated value (i.e. &quot;price guides&quot;) multiple times.</p><p><br /></p><p>The studies have shown that grading reliability shouldn&#039;t be expected when using a TPG. It&#039;s believed there aren&#039;t uniform grading standards even within an individual firm for the same coin submitted repeatedly, much less between the two &quot;premier&quot; TPG firms. Independent published studies confirm what a daily study of eBay offerings will affirm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recent inter-linked posts of mine (#38, HEY GUYS TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK) is an example that may show what can happen when there aren&#039;t checks/balances on a subjective system without objective standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe any objective individual can locate similar possibilities in daily public auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins mentioned, questioned in the previous thread were handled as stated, with results as generally stated/expected for the individual circumstances.</p><p><br /></p><p>JMHO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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