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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3607255, member: 112&quot;]Questions like yours, or very similar to yours, have existed for as long as the TPGs have existed. What it boils down to is this - concerns that some get special treatment with the coins they submit. But the reality is, things like that are non existent - it simply doesn&#039;t happen. The reason it doesn&#039;t happen is because it can&#039;t happen. And it can&#039;t happen because the graders have no idea who owns or who submitted the coins when they are looking at them and grading them. No idea at all, all they see is a coin with an invoice number on the flip. As far as the graders know the coin could have been submitted by John Q. Public, or the biggest name there is in numismatics.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one kind of exception, but that only occurs when a very special collection comes in, a famous collection. Example, the Eliasberg Collection, or any similar to it. People in the business, and that includes graders, know the coins in the famous collections. And when one of them comes in for grading it is pretty much a given that extra leniency is given to the coins in that collection. As a result, most of them are over-graded - strictly because of the name associated with that specific collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, collections like that a few and far between. So it&#039;s not something that happens very often.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - I would add one more thing. You are fairly new around here so you may not be aware of this. Those who have been a while know it all to well. I am probably one of the biggest and most vocal detractors of what the TPGs do and don&#039;t do that there is. Point being, even given that, I would still say what I just did in their defense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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