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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3977173, member: 112"]Ask Bowers yourself, ask any professional grader, they'll all tell ya the same thing. Unless there is an issue, 5 or 6 seconds is all it takes to grade a coin. PCGS made the 1st change to their original standards in '87 - less than a year after the doors for business. They decided their original standards were to strict and they publicly admitted this change. But their standards remained the same until 2004, and at the beginning of 2004 everything changed, the standards got much looser literally overnight. So did every other TPG. But they didn't tell anybody that time. And there is proof of this in plain old fashioned back and white - [ATTACH=full]1046828[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1046833[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1046834[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1046835[/ATTACH] Copies of those reports exist for every month. All anybody needs to do to see exactly when grading standards changed is look at them. They were sold to the public, anybody who wanted them could buy them direct from PCGS. Of course, once PCGS realized what they were doing by publishing those printed reports, what the public could see it they only the time to look, they stopped publishing them. Since then the TPGs have loosened their standards several more times. None of these changes have been publicly acknowledged either. And literally anybody and everybody who knows coins is all to well aware of it all.[/QUOTE]