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Message:: [QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 7350915, member: 73489"]Maybe this whole grading standards have changed thing is like the economy -- it never grows 2-3% a year in a straight line, there are booms and busts. With coin grading, you have a confluence of factors that lead to periods of "easy" and "tight" grading. Maybe that's it.  We are dealing with the human condition, remember ! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />Do you know where those articles are that Insider wrote ? Also, if the AU-58's of yesterday were the MS-61's or 60's of today, that is understandable (not saying I agree with it, but I get the whole "slider" thing).  But those AU-58's should NOT be MS-62 or MS-63 or God Forbid, higher. Speaking of 2004 ("...3 years by 2007").....did you and others like Insider all of a sudden see coins change that quickly in 2004 ?  Was it all of a sudden ?  I am somewhat surprised that 2004 was when this all happened....I would have thought it would have happened after one of the Coin Bubbles or a surge of TPG activity which required new hires who were less-experienced.[/QUOTE]