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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2309985, member: 24314&quot;]THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH COMMERCIAL/MARKET/TPGS GRADING.&nbsp; If I were you. I should send this post EXACTLY as written to CW Commentary and NN Viewpoint. It will stir up a good pack of letters to the Editor if printed.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If I were teaching, I should not end the discussion but explain the &quot;Facts of the Market&quot; to all of you.&nbsp; &quot;Look guys, we are all correct.&nbsp; This is an MS-65 but coins like this with a huge price jump are GRADED DIFFERENTLY...here is the how and the why...&nbsp; Now we have some happy, informed students who learned something and are not confused. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That&#039;s why the original TECHNICAL grading was so easy to teach.&nbsp; Most of the students graded the coin correctly at MS-65 because it was an MS-65!&nbsp; That&#039;s what you were taught.&nbsp; You need to be a TPG/SAVY coin dealer to know about the price jump.&nbsp; Most of us here will never make the cut.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been in this business as a collector since the late 60&#039;s and I cannot/will never/and do not have the time to learn &quot;Market/TPGS&quot; grading.&nbsp; Wish I could/did because there is $15,000 on the table to be made on that coin as standards loosen or the &quot;right&quot; person sends it in X # of times (<span style="color: #b30000">I have only heard these things - cannot confirm</span>).&nbsp; I talk to the TPG&#039;s whenever I can and have taken courses as you have done.&nbsp; I argue with them about technical/commercial; wear/stacking/cabinet friction all the time and learn from it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Take a look at the gray sheet for yourself.&nbsp; Some dollars go from $$$ or $$$$ to $$,$$$$ at the 4 - 5 line.&nbsp; To get the 65, the coin needs to be something the TPG&#039;s AND Finalizer wants for their collection...LOL.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What timing.&nbsp; This Tuesday at a coin shop the owner showed me three slabbed coins.&nbsp; One was graded 64, the other (?) PL and one 63 DMPL.&nbsp; Grade not important here.&nbsp; EVERY ONE was off in our opinion.&nbsp; The first (a better date) was PL yet not graded PL <span style="color: #b30000">(can you say PRICE JUMP). </span>BOTH other coins were DMPL with exactly the same mirror on both sides!&nbsp; Can you say PRICE JUMP again.&nbsp; The dealer understands &quot;market&quot; grading.&nbsp; That&#039;s why he sent them in hoping they would $$$GRADE$$$!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for sharing this...I&#039;m printing it out for my grading article files.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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