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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3295621, member: 76863&quot;]Says who a bunch of people that hate change and want to just defend their territory?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The system that was decided on many decades ago is inherently flawed and still is.&nbsp; It&#039;s slowly getting worked into something that makes more sense and is more fluid but it obviously cannot happen over night.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Plenty of people feel the hard line was flawed and want to see it go away.&nbsp; It will most likely and hopefully continue to erode as time goes forward and with any luck one day we can have a real scale where coins are based on quality and things that lost a fight to a lawn mower won&#039;t ever be graded with a higher number than pristine coins just because that one has a touch of rub.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why not?&nbsp; Changes had been happening to coin grading long before anyone on this planet was born.&nbsp; No living generation is an exception for changes either.&nbsp; If your generation really didn&#039;t want the changes it wouldn&#039;t have happened and the businesses of the TPGs would have failed.&nbsp; Plenty of TPGs have failed because the generations of active collectors at the time rejected their product.&nbsp; If the customer base kept saying I won&#039;t buy anything in xyzs holder dealers wouldn&#039;t send them anything.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even the most influential in numismatics don&#039;t turn every idea they have into a golden goose and there isn&#039;t a single one of them who haven&#039;t had failed ideas at one point.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The lack of ethics at the time without modern communication technology to expose or warn people certainly did give the TPGs a major boost for acceptance though.&nbsp;&nbsp; So yes even if you want to argue that only a couple people were responsible for that change the generation as a whole created an environment where people would accept that change.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t.&nbsp; They are a part of it as well but plenty of things that used to be the standard changed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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