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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EyeAppealingCoins, post: 3605286, member: 96749&quot;]Yes, but I&#039;m right.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Reducing the magnification doesn&#039;t help.&nbsp; With that much interruption in the bands, it shouldn&#039;t matter.&nbsp; There is enough metal fusing the bands together that it should be obvious even with a quick in hand inspection.&nbsp; On another note, I&#039;m not the one holding myself out as an &quot;expert&quot; grading service and charging others large sums of money for an opinion.&nbsp; If you stand in those shoes you take the amount of time it takes to get it right.&nbsp; A MS68+ FB dime is definitely going to be top pop or near top pop so the graders should know that their opinions matter even more and can make tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of difference.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s fine, but this goes beyond color.&nbsp; The coin received at least 3 different grades spanning almost 2 full points in a year.&nbsp; This is disturbing even assuming we accept color bumps.&nbsp; When we have two point grading swings then it tells you that the grading is inconsistent, and if we are giving two point color bumps (or better) then we are really grading the color and not the coin&#039;s level of preservation at that point.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My thread wasn&#039;t intended to bash the price so much as it was to bash the loose application of strike designations, grading inconsistency/grade inflation, and the major effects that grade inflation is having in this hobby.&nbsp; So the next time someone goes on about PCGS/CAC only &quot;protecting&quot; the collector, I hope you and others will remember this thread and others like it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to fix awkward grammar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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