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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 880000, member: 112&quot;]Just to make sure you understand what I meant by that let me expand a bit further. It&#039;s not that the TPG overrules or changes the grade that the graders decide on. It&#039;s that the TPG dictates from the get go what standards the graders have to use when grading coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>For example, say you have 2 graders working for company A. Based on company A&#039;s standards they grade a given a coin MS64. </p><p><br /></p><p>A year later, both of those same graders are now working for compnay B. The exact same coin is submitted to company B for a cross-over grade. And the same two graders are given the coin to grade. But using company B&#039;s standards they now grade the coin MS62. The reverse happens as well. The coin might be graded 62 the first time and 64 the second time.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the exact same coin, it&#039;s the exact same 2 graders - but it gets two vastly different grades. The only difference is the standards that each company dictates that the graders use.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it goes beyond that. Again the same 2 graders working for company A grade a coin MS63. Later, those same two graders working for company B body-bag the same exact coin as being harshly cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not imagination nor is it hypothetical conjecture. Instances like those I have described have been documented, proved beyond any doubt. It happens ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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