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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1598117, member: 15309&quot;]We are all aware that the TPG&#039;s grade by committee but that does not remove subjectivity, it ensures that one grader doesn&#039;t make a mistake.&nbsp; As for the SLQ in question, the rub is evident, but it does not bear the characteristics that the TPG&#039;s associate with circulation wear.&nbsp; Rather, it bears the indicators of roll friction and should have been graded as a mint state coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are you claiming that all grades assigned for every coin by the TPG&#039;s are the result of unanimous decisions?&nbsp; It was my understanding that the finalizer determines the grade when there is disagreement amongst the graders.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You ask if I would be willing to accept the TPG&#039;s grade when I knew for a certainty that they were wrong for a specific coin, my answer is a resounding YES.&nbsp; As long as in doing so it enabled the TPG&#039;s to correctly grade many other coins that otherwise would have been graded incorrectly.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see Doug, you are doing the exact same thing, but you compartmentalize in your head a certain way that it hides the fact.&nbsp; You claim that wear is wear and that all coins with wear should be considered AU and graded as such.&nbsp; This makes things very nice and tidy, perfectly clean in the black and white world.&nbsp; You then give me a hypothetical example about a rare coin with friction found in circulation that the TPG&#039;s grade as MS based on roll friction.&nbsp; Did they get it wrong?&nbsp; Well of course the answer is yes.&nbsp; But in your world, you simply ignore roll friction all together.&nbsp; You don&#039;t refute that it exists, rather you simply ignore it.&nbsp; So when a mint state Saint Gaudens Double Eagle is plucked from a sealed bag and shows high point rub from contact with the other coins, you are accepting a coin that is undoubtedly mint state to be graded as an AU coin because &quot;wear is wear.&quot;&nbsp; It goes both ways Doug.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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