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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4574542, member: 24314&quot;]TypeCoin971793, posted: &quot;There was a time when PCGS didn’t give a grade of “XX Details“. That didn’t last long.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank Goodness!&nbsp; Any coin can be graded and the TPGS in business before PCGS were grading everything.&nbsp; Until they got with the program, the top TPGS believed problem coins in their slabs would &quot;damage&quot; their image and hinder &quot;sight-unseen&quot; sales. </p><p><br /></p><p>johnmilton, posted: &quot;I think that the &quot;newbies&quot; need to learn. [<span style="color: #b30000">Absolutely</span>!] I know some people don&#039;t like net grades [<span style="color: #b30000">I&#039;m one of them</span>], but for some people it&#039;s hard to assign a value for a problem piece. [<span style="color: #b30000">I think putting a realistic value on a coin for most of us non-dealers without an up-to-date view of the coin market is virtually impossible!</span>]&nbsp; The <b><span style="color: #660066">net graded</span></b> piece [<span style="color: #b30000"><b>That matches no published guide <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></b></span>] is at least the beginning of a guide. [<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />]</p><p><br /></p><p>Many times the problem lowers the net grade by one notch. Sometimes the problem(s) is (are) so bad that it is more than that.&quot;&nbsp; [<span style="color: #b30000">I guess one problem with grading coins is it is not subjective enough.</span>][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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