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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 24865069, member: 24314&quot;]Nope.&nbsp; Here is the problem.&nbsp; Coin dealers made grading so loose that another coin dealer had to explain in his 2008 grading guide what had been taking place in the previous decade and a half! <b><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000"> AU&#039;s were now being graded as Mint State!&nbsp; </span></font></b><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">In fact, all the upper grades had been changed as previous standards were destroyed.&nbsp; </span></font><span style="color: #000000"><font size="6">The newest grading service &quot;looks&quot; extremely strict because that&#039;s how far market acceptability and price increases destroyed the standards that anyone under fifty grew up with.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font size="6"><br /></font></span></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Long ago I told folks that when all the old dinosaurs die off, the &quot;new&quot; standards would be the only standards.&nbsp; It looks like this new TPGS may help put a halt to the extreme change and push back a little closer to the old ways.&nbsp; A lot of folks are going to be pissed and resist the move to what appears to be a much stricter standard closer to those of the first independent coin grading service in 1976.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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