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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 725087, member: 112&quot;]I understand all of that Paul, but that doesn&#039;t make it right. And if there is one major problem with the TPG&#039;s, I would say that this a good example of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now don&#039;t misunderstand what I mean by that. It has nothing to do with Jeffs per se, in fact it pertains to all coins. What it has to do with is that the TPG&#039;s have caused the collectiing public to become, I guess blind would be the word, to many of the very basic points of grading a coin. It&#039;s the stuff that is never discussed any more because it has been forgotten about. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, maybe forgotten isn&#039;t the right word, it might well be that the majority of the collecting public never even knew it to begin with because it is old school, Brown and Dunn old school. The stuff I have been talking about like planchet flaws, the coin being well centered and die cracks. Those were the kind of things that you learned to look at first before you ever even began to look for contact marks or to judge the quality of luster or the eye appeal of a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess what I am trying to say is that the repeated and routine ignoring of these things by the TPG&#039;s has caused to public to become so used to them being ignored that they the public have become used to it. Used to it to the point that even those who know about it don&#039;t think about it anymore. And they should think about it. For these are the things that are the very foundation of the grading of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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