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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 2338241, member: 69760&quot;]Personally, I like to stick with &quot;I like it&quot; or &quot;I don&#039;t like it&quot;. It&#039;ll make sense to me and others may not agree, but I&#039;ll get the coin if its condition meets <i>my </i>minimum standard (usually around AU-55, problem-free). And, I actually prefer some tarnish throughout, nice patterned color, etc., and dislike some toning that&#039;s distracting in unappealing ways, which numeric grades don&#039;t really encompass too well.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, the grading &quot;guides&quot; I&#039;ve been using have been photo examples by PCGS or NGC of coins at XX grade. They&#039;re mostly photos from HA&#039;s site that are linked from those TPGs&#039;s sites. It&#039;s not a hard grade that I&#039;m assigning to the raw coins I&#039;m looking at, but those TPG coin photos are more-or-less consistent and should theoretically correct for grade inflation (right?), since I&#039;m referencing a coin with an immutable grade (assuming of course it&#039;s not cracked out and regraded, damaged slab affecting the coin, problems developing on the coin after slabbing, etc.).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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