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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2019488, member: 112&quot;]Another dodge ? Paul, if NGC has no published standards how can anyone, including me, list what the differences in those standards are ? They can&#039;t, all anyone can do is give an opinion based on perception. But I&#039;ll answer your question, if I had to pick just one series I&#039;d say Lincoln cents probably qualify. And there are many others who would probably say the same thing. I know for a fact there are several members on this forum who think so.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the main point is this Paul, that NGC and PCGS use different grading standards. That&#039;s all I said. Are you trying to claim they do not ? </p><p><br /></p><p>If so then I do believe this an example of where you differ from the majority of those in numismatics. You said yourself, the differences are subtle. But even if they are subtle there are still differences, which all I said - that they are different.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not claiming that one company is better than the other. Both companies have their pluses and minuses. The general market perception is that on some series NGC has tougher standards, and on some series PCGS has tougher standards. And in numerous threads right here on this forum when the question is asked which is better, which is tougher - it doesn&#039;t matter how you word the question it&#039;s still the same question - the outcome is almost always the same. About the same number of people will choose NGC as there that choose PCGS. And if you go ask on the NGC forum the majority will pick NGC, and on the PCGS forum the majority will pick PCGS. Or are you going to deny that too ? All I am saying is that the two companies are different and each uses different grading standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>But this thread is not about which TPG is tougher or better than another. This thread is about market grading, about what market grading actually is and how it is defined. It is about where the market grading system came from, how it was developed, who developed it, and how it differs from the grading system we had before - technical grading.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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