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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 7582454, member: 24314"]Beefer518, posted: "You could start your own - call it "The Insider track" <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Something may be in the works.  I think that each TPGS should have an Internet forum. johnmilton, posted: "If you want to discuss strike issues, here is a well-known example. For those you know the Classic Head $2.50 series well I apologize because this one is well-known to the specialists. [ATTACH=full]1306665[/ATTACH] I bought this 1836 Classic Head $2.50 gold from the late Catherine Bullowa in 1971. She graded it AU [because it is <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />], but at the time I bought the piece she commented that "It might Uncirculated, I'm not sure." Mrs. Bullowa was a shrewd and reputable dealer.  She knew that coin was a weakly struck AU in 1971!   It is a very nice example. It would have been graded AU-58 if sent to either of the first two TPGS in the 1980's.  I'll bet PCGS would have also graded it AU when they first started grading in 1986.  Today, it is "rightfully" considered to be MS because standards changed and its value has increased.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]