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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fred13, post: 2014837, member: 20688&quot;]I&#039;ve been a member of the forum since 2009 so I&#039;ve had a roughly equal exposure to Doug&#039;s effective presence on the forum which I believe puts me in a well leveraged position to refute Morgandudes opinion</p><p><br /></p><p>The use of the word expert is relative. The misunderstanding you appear to have is even the definition of the word has quite a bit of variance between you and Doug&#039;s definition of it. You mentioned prior Doug is remarkably consistent in grading. From having quite a bit of discourse with him for the past few years I am inclined to agree.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a final point I don&#039;t think anyone is challenging the proficiencies of the graders per se. I&#039;m sure Doug would agree that every single grader employed by NGC and PCGS knows a thing or two. Rather the center of his argument is that the companies have changed there standards to appeal to their customers and maximize their profitability by giving the consumer what they want; higher grades. As such they direct the graders to grade in the manner that they as a company choose. And I&#039;d have to agree with him. I&#039;d like to think I know a thing or two about numismatics and there are very few coins nowadays that I agree with the grade assigned by the TPG&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never really understood why you have so much trouble accepting this whole concept[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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