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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 26714724, member: 105571&quot;]I have gotten increasingly cynical about grading, particularly over the last couple of years.&nbsp; Partly that is due to just being better educated and partly due to an observed degradation of standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a coin (not mine) that caught my eye recently.&nbsp; This coin is graded by PCGS PR-64+DCAM and awarded the CAC Green Bean.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note how heavily hairlined this coin is.&nbsp; Now this is a very expensive issue.&nbsp; Would a common and low-priced coin have received this degree of forgiveness?&nbsp; I doubt it.&nbsp; I personally think this coin is on the borderline between a low PR grade and a body bag.&nbsp; But hey, it&#039;s expensive so it can&#039;t be graded that low.&nbsp; It&#039;s like the grader was completely oblivious to the hairlines as if they didn&#039;t exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>I learned a lot about the hairline grading standards for proofs when I was putting together a Walking Liberty Half Dollar proof set.&nbsp; Even my lowest graded WL proof at 63 was nowhere as hairlined as this half eagle and would never have received a CAC bean.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1705730[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1705731[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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