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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1348700, member: 112"]There's a pretty simple reason and explanation. But to recognize it, and understand it, you have to have seen it happen. In a nutshell, the TPGs give their customers what they want. Now I don't mean that they just hand out higher than justified grades or play favorites when I say that. Far from it, that they never do. But what the TPGs (and this goes for NGC too) will do is to change their policies on things if that is what their customers want. You see, there was time when the TPGs did not use the special designations at all. Just like there was a time when the TPGs would not slab problem coins. Just like when Full Steps really meant Full Steps - all 6 of them. Or when NGC would not slab any coin minted after 1964. Or when PCGS would not assign the 70 grade. Or when PCGS would not assign any attribution not found in the Red Book. There is a very long list of these things ! And all of them have been changed or instituted because the TPG customers wanted it that way. And yet people choose to believe that the TPGs will not, have not changed their grading standards <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]