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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1404498, member: 112&quot;]Chris you cannot compare the grading of ancients to the grading of any other coin. It can&#039;t be done. Ancients are an entirely different animal with their own unique set of rules. And none of those rules apply to the grading of other coins. Any coins, world or US.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as over-grading coins, of course it happens. You have seen me say 1,000 times that the TPGs over-grade US coins all too often. So of course they also over-grade world coins. But that has nothing to do with the subject being discussed. What we are trying to discuss is difference, if any, between the US grading system and the European grading system. Your comment was that it was arrogant for the TPG to grade a world coin with the US grading system.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point is that there is no difference between the US and European systems. They both follow the same basic rules, they both have approximately the same number of grades. The only difference is the Europeans use the same adjectival system that we used to use in the US, while we in the US now use a numerical system. But the grades are still the same for the adjectives equal the numbers. So it is the same system. </p><p><br /></p><p>Would you be happier if instead of labeling that coin VF25 they had labeled it g VF ? The grade is still the same regardless what name you use for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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