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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 444971, member: 4381&quot;]no, what I&#039;m saying is the grade of 70 doesn&#039;t exist until you have a valid process to determine it according to a reasonable standard.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some great coins, lots of them.&nbsp; Some are 70&#039;s, most are 69&#039;s and&nbsp; some are 68 and what I&#039;m saying is that is the reasonable overlap of the finest specimens that are available.</p><p><br /></p><p>And until you can show me a validated process which is constantly applied correctly which results in a reasonable accuracy on a consistent base, then you have no 70 grade.&nbsp; The truth is that this applies for all the other grades as well, but because of the extremely narrow definition of a 70, it is absolutely necessary to have a validated process which not only could reasonably confirm all the current 70&#039;s are 70&#039;s, but can also find a majority of the 70&#039;s which are parading around as 69&#039;s and the 69s parading around as 70&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your in good company because Doug believes that as well.&nbsp; I do not.&nbsp; I&#039;m a strong proponent of slabbing but frankly, the TPGer run their operations like it is armature hour.&nbsp; They don&#039;t validate their grading processes in a scientific, reliable and provable fashion.&nbsp; They are reluctant to fess up to errors, which we see all day long on this board and other boards, and they&#039;re quality control is sloppy and based often on non-objective criteria.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It shouldn&#039;t be but this is the best you have.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice analogy.&nbsp; I don&#039;t by it but that is a great topic for alt.sports.baseball.ny-mets</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If they ever create a means to make that judgment, I agree with you and I&#039;m sure a bunch of them will be the highest possible grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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