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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2418117, member: 1892&quot;]Fair enough - your additional skills put you in a better position to make smart decisions than most. All the same, by your own admission - you almost certainly diagnosed the reason for your languising items in inventory - you&#039;ve bought duds which you likely wouldn&#039;t have acquired in the first place with a better feel for technical grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>The statistics from which one can make reasonable assumptions about grading times are freely available in public filings by the TPG&#039;s (and in videos they publish) and have been public knowledge for a long time. We&#039;ve been discussing it in various fora going back ten years and more. You can find out how many graders are employed and how many coins graded - the rest is math. By the most generous estimations, a grader gets about 15 seconds per coin. Most likely far less in the &quot;meat and potatoes&quot; Modern issues they grade by the bushel basket - new bullion mintages are their profit margin - which are balanced out by any extra time spent with more difficult Classic coins. And yes, I&#039;ve discussed it quietly on occasion or two with former working graders (you won&#039;t see them publicly identifying, because of the crap they&#039;d take on behalf of their former employers <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ).</p><p><br /></p><p>As a dealer, you are probably a generalist and this <b>does</b> make grading more difficult because individual issues have their own grading ideosyncracies. All the same, even if for no other reason it makes good business sense for you to develop a better feel for grading.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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