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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1076179, member: 112"]You're right Paul, I would say it doesn't prove anything, because it doesn't. No matter what anyone says or what side of an issue they are on, they can always find coins to illustrate their point and say - see, I'm right. But it's not 1 coin or 10 coins or even 100 coins that I have been talking about. It is thousands of coins ! Between them NGC and PCGS slab somewhere around 300,000 coins each and every month. So what can be proved about grading practices by posting pictures of even a 1000 coins ? Absolutely nothing. Who in their right mind would believe that by posting pictures of 0.003% of the coins graded in just 1 month that you could prove anything about grading practices ? Nobody that I know. When you talk about trends in grading practices you have to consider what you have seen over a period of time, usually several years and involving thousands of coins. Then you have to add to that the opinions of others who you respect and trust who have been looking at the same number or even more coins just as long as you have. And if your opinions match, then you are probably right. And when more and more people express the same opinion - then you know that are right. You know this in your own head, and they know it in their heads. But just try and convince somebody else of it - especially when they don't want to believe it. People will believe what want to believe - and nothing else.[/QUOTE]