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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 494786, member: 112"]Rest all ya want. I agree, the second coin does not deserve a 67 grade. So again, it is a poor example for making your point. If you really want to make your point you need to find 2 coins that are accurately graded to begin with and go from there.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that's the problem with posting pics like you are Paul. For if the 2 coins are accurately graded it's pretty dang hard to make your point.</p><p><br /></p><p>You and I and everyone else there is on this forum knows that the TPG's make mistakes. Sometimes they over-grade and sometimes they under-grade. But most of the the time they do grade accurately. But of you compare an accurately graded coin to an inaccurately graded coin - that's not really a fair comparison now is it. And it's certainly not going to go very far towards making the point you are trying to make.</p><p><br /></p><p>One more thing, for a truly fair comparison both of the coins used in the comparison need to have been graded in roughly the same time frame. That is because we know that in the past couple of years they have bumping grades based on current market value. So to compare coin 1 of a given grade that was slabbed 5 or 6 years ago to coin 2 that was slabbed 2 months ago - is again comparing an apple to an orange.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 494786, member: 112"]Rest all ya want. I agree, the second coin does not deserve a 67 grade. So again, it is a poor example for making your point. If you really want to make your point you need to find 2 coins that are accurately graded to begin with and go from there. But that's the problem with posting pics like you are Paul. For if the 2 coins are accurately graded it's pretty dang hard to make your point. You and I and everyone else there is on this forum knows that the TPG's make mistakes. Sometimes they over-grade and sometimes they under-grade. But most of the the time they do grade accurately. But of you compare an accurately graded coin to an inaccurately graded coin - that's not really a fair comparison now is it. And it's certainly not going to go very far towards making the point you are trying to make. One more thing, for a truly fair comparison both of the coins used in the comparison need to have been graded in roughly the same time frame. That is because we know that in the past couple of years they have bumping grades based on current market value. So to compare coin 1 of a given grade that was slabbed 5 or 6 years ago to coin 2 that was slabbed 2 months ago - is again comparing an apple to an orange.[/QUOTE]
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