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Message:: [QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 3872351, member: 15309"]Based on this submission, I would say they were harsh in their grading.  The problem is that I submitted less than 50 coins and that is nowhere near a big enough sample size to decide that they have either changed their standards or are making more mistakes. That said, many of the grades had me literally scratching my head.  Notably, the 1930 Buffalo 5C MS62, both 1938 Jeffersons (AU58 & MS64), and the fact that not one single crossover coin upgraded and 3 of the 20 didn't cross.  And we won't even discuss the application of the star designation.  In fact, the only area where I did well was getting 5FS designations on Jeffersons in old fatty holders that I sent in for designation review.  I had a 1943-S, 1945-D, and 1950-D all in MS67 holders come back in MS67 5FS. And I would have to agree, the only coin of the 47 where I thought the grade was high (or fortunate) was the conserved 1943-D NGC MS67 5FS.  But the luster on that coin is tremendous and I can understand why they graded it the way they did.[/QUOTE]