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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;imrich, post: 1704421, member: 22331&quot;]<b>Questionable Grading Purpose?</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>I believe you&#039;ll find that the original intent of TPG was to honorably evaluate the condition of a coin relative to published standards of the A.N.A.. As time elapsed, some tried to maintain those standards in grading, while others relented to the pressures of dealers/&quot;investors&quot;, seemingly&nbsp; deviating to new unspecified &quot;Market&quot; standards. These new standard coins condition can vary many grades from the original published standards, and even in a gross error condition have a grade on something not a genuine coin. The new grading standards appear to be a function of coin scarcity/uniqueness related to demand for a product normally unaffordable to novice &quot;collectors&quot;. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Having viewed expensive quality &quot;copies&quot; produced by modern replication processes on original production equipment, submitted to TPG for authentification, being returned as &quot;</b><i><font face="arial">Questionable Authenticity</font><b>&quot;,</b> </i><b>I&#039;m not certain that TPG can even assure a &quot;guarantee of genuineness&quot;: </b><a href="http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&amp;Number=4486460" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&amp;Number=4486460" rel="nofollow">http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&amp;Number=4486460</a></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>I&#039;ve been a party to coins being certified &quot;cleaned&quot; by a stringent &quot;old school&quot; TPG, submitted to a &quot;Market&quot; grading TPG, realizing a &quot;Mint State&quot; grade. I suspect many viewing this forum have had/known similar experiences. Regardless, I have shown TPG coins without a &quot;cleaned&quot; designation that I believe would be adjudicated as &quot;altered state&quot; coins. I believe the condition of questionable certification denies the argument that &quot;</b><span style="color: #FF0000">properly cleaned coins are undetectable</span><b>&quot;. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>JMHO </b>:thumb:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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