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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2012847, member: 15929&quot;]The OP is looking for absolutes in an opinionated industry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Absolutes simply do not exist where &quot;opinions&quot; are in play as no two people will ever agree on anything when money is involved. Consensus can be difficult if not impossible with regard to assigning a grade. It is the &quot;trust&quot; in the TPG&#039;s (or dealers) consensus which defines the market and the relative price of a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Folks tend to forget that this entire industry created by the TPG&#039;s was based upon what a coin should sell for &quot;according to the current market&quot; based upon an independent third party where the seller is the 1st party and the buyer is the 2nd party.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since coin dealing began, coin dealers, as coin owners, have been over pricing (grading) their wares. Even amongst themselves, which is &quot;why&quot; the TPG business was originally created. To stop the bickering.</p><p><br /></p><p>A new generation of collectors exists today who simply were not a part of the birthing process that TPG&#039;s went through. As such, they tend to give absolute power to the TPG when the reality is that there would be no need for a TPG (in the market) if people could all agree.</p><p><br /></p><p>TPG&#039;s render &quot;opinions&quot; and nothing more because the coin that they graded MS63, upon crackout resubmission could come back as MS64 or even MS62 because even TPG&#039;s are made up of multiple graders who entertain different &quot;opinions&quot; on the same coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line is that buyers have the choice of either buying the coin (regardless of posted or slabbed grade) or not buying the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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