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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 421579, member: 112&quot;]Fair enough, but I was just asking your personal opinion Mike. </p><p><br /></p><p>I will agree, it does tend to make it tough to say on the one hand that wear is wear and then turn around disagree with the grading standards of the TPG when they say that a coin can have slight wear and still grade up to MS67. It kinda puts us between a rock and hard spot doesn&#039;t it ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course it gets just a bit harder when the PCGS grading standards also say stuff like - </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; Uncirculated, or Mint State coins - ..... the kind of coins used in every day commerce but which show no sign of ever having been used in circulation.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; Circulated coins - these are coins that have undergone wear, however slight, as a result of use in circulation or mishandling.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Sounds just a tiny bit contradictory to the previously posted quotes don&#039;t ya think ?</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I will agree with you that the market has spoken clearly in their support. But then how many of the people that actually make up the market have ever actually read the PCGS grading standards and know what they say ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have always been of the feeling that if more people, the market, did actually read the entire book with an effort to understand it and dissect it - they just may not be quite so supportive. Nor would they be so likely to just blindly accept the grades handed out by the TPG&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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