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Message:: [QUOTE="Pickin and Grinin, post: 3211608, member: 73995"]This isn't one coin, I see many coins that I feel are over graded and it would be a waste of thread space to point even the most recent seen on CT. I do get to tell a dealer what I think, who are you to tell me I can't.I thoroughly understand how the TPGS grade coins that dose not mean that I have to agree with them. Yes as stated previously in this thread I grade conservatively. Do Doug and I have the same standards.? I am not sure but they are close. It is likely that this coin was not as dark as it is when it was slabbed.. And could have been an attractive coin. I have said it before I do not mind TPG's. And I do think that they do a certain good in the market place. They have made the selling of coins by photo a reality. They also have kept many a dealer honest. Lets not forget have protected many an buyer that do not care to learn how to grade. Lets put it this way. I am definitely building more of a bias towards the top two TPG's. As they need to build revenue, They tweak there standards, it might be slight, each time. But tweaked none the less.This has gotten them away from the business model they started with. And has resulted in overgrading.You can't tell me different, and I do side with Doug on this. A coin years ago that was a 65 or even 66 is now put into a plus or has hit the next grade or two. Pile on CAC and now the problem has gotten even worse.[/QUOTE]