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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1514114, member: 112&quot;]But have they ? People use the excuse (and that&#039;s all it is, an excuse) that TPG grading standards have loosened because coins have gone up in price, and the grades being assigned merely reflect those new higher prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>But - you knew there was a but coming didn&#039;t you ? - prices have been steadily dropping for 4 years now - not going up. So by the previous logic (grades going up with prices) then grading standards should have been getting tighter and tighter for the past 4 years. But they are not. If anything they are even looser than they were before.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not market forces that are altering the grading standards. It&#039;s people letting the TPGs get away with over-grading because the people don&#039;t know how to grade themselves. And the TPGs will do whatever people let them get away with.</p><p><br /></p><p>When people stand up and start complaining that coins are being over-graded, then the TPGs will listen and standards will tighten. Hopefully back to where they are supposed to be, which is equal to the published standards. And sooner or later that is what I believe will happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>This exact same scenario has played out before, it is nothing new. In the past grading standards got looser and looser with time. And then when people complained, presto, standards got tightened. Coins that were graded MS65 became MS63s literally overnight. That is a historical fact, not an opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you would better served to buy the books, learn how to grade correctly, and thus be ready for what is coming down the road.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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