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Message:: [QUOTE="andycook, post: 402393, member: 13258"]I've not submitted a coin to a TPG and I have never owned one graded by a TPG either so you all will have to help me out.  When a coin is graded by a TPG company the owner of the coin gets it back in a slab.  On that slab is a grade.  That grade is based on the condition of the coin, right?  Where is the eye appeal rating on the slab?   The whole idea of the TPG was to be able to buy a AU-XX sight unseen and get a coin in a specific condition.  This failed becuase it doesn't take into account eye appeal. The person grading the coin may be biased for or against a coin based on how much that coin matches their eye appeal preference.  Everyone has a conscious or subconscious "ideal" for what a coin should look like.  That varies from person to person. The visual grading guide doesn't seem to have any statements about "liking the looks of the coin so add or subtract points" A coin in VF-XX can have better eye appeal than a coin in AU-XX, right?  But one is still VF and the other is still AU. Don't get me wrong about eye appeal being meaningless.  Eye appeal has a huge impact on price and why I buy one coin over another but the grade is an absolute that is measurable and that assessment should be repeatable time and time again.[/QUOTE]