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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2315384, member: 76863&quot;]Have grading standards really degraded?&nbsp; I would argue no.&nbsp; They have certainly changed over the years but I wouldn&#039;t say degraded is the right word.&nbsp; Remember all those &quot;conservative&quot; grading periods through out the history of the hobby where not only was cleaning a coin acceptable but it was normal, those coins may have had a lower grade but they would have all been details coins by today&#039;s standards and many still are. </p><p><br /></p><p>64 to 65 really isn&#039;t a great example either given the subjectivity of grading.&nbsp; We have to remember that one of the ways grading has changed over the years is the constant adding of new grades within the system.&nbsp; As the system adds grades and pluses ect we continue to split hairs more and more between grades.&nbsp; Given the subjective nature of grading to begin with 1 point swings in either direction upon resubmission can be a lot of factors that have nothing to do with gradeflation and can often times just be someone having a different opinion on the subjective aspects of the grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>There certainly has been changes to grading just like the 1930s graded differently than the 1880s as things always evolve over time for better or for worse, but we do also need to remember we are also comparing two different systems where the current one splits hairs between all the different grades and plus grades and stars that weren&#039;t even around when the TPGs themselves started much less 80 years ago.&nbsp; As time goes on I suspect that trend will continue where hairs get split even more between grades where one possibility could be the introduction of fractional grading within a grade. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That does happen unfortunately.&nbsp; Pretty much any population right below a massive value jump is artificially inflated from people trying to get that one point upgrade for the value boost.&nbsp; That of course gives people the idea the supply is much larger than it really is which at best will hold the value down and often times does drive it down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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