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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 4503338, member: 15309"]You seem to want to blame this scenario on gradeflation, but your very first sentence undermines your own point. If you have an MS64 coin, but you think it should grade higher, that means you think you have a coin that is either undergraded or is straddling the line. How many times have you looked at a coin and had difficulty deciding whether a coin is an MS64 or MS65? It happens all the time, right? Do you think that professional graders are immune to this problem?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at grading incrementally, then a solid MS64 would actually grade MS64.5. When anyone with any grading skill at all views that coin, it is easy for them to reach a consensus grade of MS64 because if you asked them to grade it incrementally, the range might be MS64.3 to MS64.6, and every grade in that range is still an MS64.</p><p><br /></p><p>But when you have a coin that grades MS64.9 to MS65.1, how do you grade that coin? Maybe upon initial submission, one grader gave it MS64, another MS65, and the finalizer erred on the side of caution and assigned the grade MS64. Here comes the tricky part, this PQ MS64 which you "think should be higher" will only get resubmitted if the price jump from MS64 to MS65 is high enough for you to cover your expenses and risk in cracking the coin out and resubmitting it. But if it is, and you finally resubmit the coin, now both graders view the coin as an MS65.1 and the finalizer agrees that it is a low end MS65 and you get your upgrade.</p><p><br /></p><p>So did the coin upgrade because the TPG changed their standard or is the gradeflation simply a natural side effect of the combination of the subjectivity of grading and the opportunity to make a profit?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 4503338, member: 15309"]You seem to want to blame this scenario on gradeflation, but your very first sentence undermines your own point. If you have an MS64 coin, but you think it should grade higher, that means you think you have a coin that is either undergraded or is straddling the line. How many times have you looked at a coin and had difficulty deciding whether a coin is an MS64 or MS65? It happens all the time, right? Do you think that professional graders are immune to this problem? If you look at grading incrementally, then a solid MS64 would actually grade MS64.5. When anyone with any grading skill at all views that coin, it is easy for them to reach a consensus grade of MS64 because if you asked them to grade it incrementally, the range might be MS64.3 to MS64.6, and every grade in that range is still an MS64. But when you have a coin that grades MS64.9 to MS65.1, how do you grade that coin? Maybe upon initial submission, one grader gave it MS64, another MS65, and the finalizer erred on the side of caution and assigned the grade MS64. Here comes the tricky part, this PQ MS64 which you "think should be higher" will only get resubmitted if the price jump from MS64 to MS65 is high enough for you to cover your expenses and risk in cracking the coin out and resubmitting it. But if it is, and you finally resubmit the coin, now both graders view the coin as an MS65.1 and the finalizer agrees that it is a low end MS65 and you get your upgrade. So did the coin upgrade because the TPG changed their standard or is the gradeflation simply a natural side effect of the combination of the subjectivity of grading and the opportunity to make a profit?[/QUOTE]
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