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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 686291, member: 112"]Personally, no I do not. As was said earlier in the thread, gradeflation has been occurring for a long time. But I do think that the value aspect of grading sharply increased during the course of the bull market. Now what that means is this. Say you have a coin that was graded MS63 and was worth $300. Over the course of a period of time the value of that coin increased to $900. Well, if you took that same coin and re-submitted it, it would now come back graded as MS65. Now that's just an example, but it's pretty much what happened IMO.  No, not at all. I know there are many who believe that is true, but I have seen too many big dealers who do a huge volume of business with the TPG's complain just as much, if not more, about their coins being under-graded than the collector who sends in 10 coins a year.  Yes, I do think they were more accurate in 2002.  Strike always plays a part in grading. But the example you use is not a good one because with coins where the majority of the mintage is known to have been weakly struck, allowances are made for the weak strike when grading those coins. However, if you compare two coins from the same date and mint, and all other things are equal except quality of strike, then the coin with the better strike will sometimes grade higher than the other coin. But this typically only happens in the higher grades and usually only when the quality of strike is signifcantly better.[/QUOTE]