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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1591865, member: 26302&quot;]I agree, but would modify it slightly. Education is key, but not indoctrination. What I mean about that is a person should educate themselves about every facet of coinage, how a coin is made, how it tones, how it gets worn and damaged, etc. This is just common sense every collector who wishes to collect coins NEEDS to know if they are going to be serious.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;no indoctrination&quot; part is in response to your original post Morgandude. You post a circular argument about toning, saying a member here cannot judge &quot;market acceptable toning&quot; better than TPG graders.&nbsp; When the TPG graders are by definition the ones determining &quot;market acceptability&quot; its kind of hard to argue that, right? </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone should educate themselves and come up with their own views. Lemmings who assume TPG&#039;s are infallible will always be taken advantage of. Its fine to use a TPG for enhanced liquidity of your coins, for authentication, (their best use in my view), and even for grading and &quot;market acceptablity&quot; if you wish. However, the more advanced collectors in my eyes understand what the TPG is evaluating and is personally agreeing with what the TPG has said about the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Way too few collectors in my view perform this last step, to their detriment in my opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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