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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3979473, member: 112&quot;]I thought I made it pretty clear in previous posts beyond count. YES - the TPGs graded coins correctly and accurately up until the end of 2003 ! </p><p><br /></p><p>Now does that mean they got every single one correct ? No, it doesn&#039;t, there are always exceptions. But if you search old posts and articles from back then you&#039;ll find where I myself, and just about everybody else, readily agreed that the TPGs were right the grades they assigned at least 85% of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The OHG (old green holder) was used until 1998. And what do you think caused the, as you called it, obsession, with older slabs ? It was because basically anybody and everybody who knew anything at all knew all too well what had happened. That the TPGs had greatly loosened grading standards after 2003. By 2005 all but a handful of the coins in older slabs had already been picked over, cracked out, and resubmitted to get the higher grades based on the current more lenient grading standards ! </p><p><br /></p><p>There were millions and millions of coins in those older slabs dating from 2003 and back. But today, you really have to look to find them. Oh sure you might find some now and then, but if you do odds are extremely high that the coins inside were either overgraded at the time, or already maxed out on grade at the time - and so they were passed over as candidates for the crackout game. Why the very phrase itself, crackout game, where do ya think that came from ? The phrase was coined because what I&#039;m describing was so extremely common and well known.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if you take the time to find them, you&#039;ll even find posts from back then on the NGC and PCGS forums both, as well as this one, confirming all of this. Also, by 2005 articles written by the greats of our hobby were bemoaning the loosening of TPG grading standards that had become pervasive. And those articles not only continued through later years - they increased in number. </p><p><br /></p><p>None of what I have been writing about in this thread is new, or even news for that matter. It&#039;s almost ancient history - now. But there are still those who are unaware of it so from time to time I still write about it like I have for 15 years now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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