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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 24876007, member: 24314&quot;]<i><span style="color: #0000ff">GoldFinger1969, asked: &quot;Are you saying that using high-power magnification is standard when the 3 graders get together to determine a coin&#039;s grade ?&quot;</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Come on, you are smarter than that.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never seen or heard of any professional TPGS employee looking at a coin to grade it.&nbsp; Every so often, they pull out a scope to authenticate a coin.&nbsp; You learn to authenticate coins with a scope.&nbsp; That&#039;s how it was done at the first authentication service.&nbsp; While doing that you are examining a coin closely.&nbsp; In the 70&#039;s, we probably got 50 to 100 coins a week sent for authentication.&nbsp; That left lots of time to examine them - all of them (US and foreign) very closely.&nbsp; It became a habit.&nbsp; So, for the last 45 years just about everything goes under my scope - even silver eagles!&nbsp; &nbsp; This would be impossible if I became a professional today and had to grade, authenticate, attribute, and clean 800 coins a day.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The point anyone should take away is that by looking at coins (7-10X) WITH TWO EYES AT THE SAME TIME while using fluorescent light you will become a better numismatist and not much will slip past you unnoticed.&nbsp; After you see things on coins in this way you will know what you are looking at with your eyes alone, 5X magnification, or posted images in forums.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #0000ff">Goldfinger continued: BTW, was always curious....what does a TPG do when say 1 of the 3 senior graders is out sick or on vacation and there isn&#039;t a backup that is on par with him or her ?</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">IMO, most of the long-term graders have learned the company line good enough to be the single person grading a majority of coins although I&#039;m glad I&#039;m not the finalizer.&nbsp; So, I guess things would go on if two graders were sick.&nbsp; The QC guys should catch any wild errors.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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