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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2885750, member: 112&quot;]I guess that depends on who &quot;we&quot; is. I say that because when it comes to knowing which coins are well struck and which ones aren&#039;t - that&#039;s been known since the 1970s. And besides that, the TPGs don&#039;t even use quality of strike as a grading criteria - they never have.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can only assume, based on this and what you said previously on this matter, that when you say &quot;made up things&quot; you are referring to Breen&#039;s Encyclopedia. Small problem with that though, the book was first published in 1988 and by the early 90&#039;s every mistake in it was well and widely known. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On this I just flat out disagree. Based on what I&#039;ve seen they are more lenient.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be specific, the leniency in TPG grading began in 2004. They changed their grading standards literally overnight. And since then they have changed them a few more times. And on every occasion it was to loosen the standards.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know whether to just laugh out loud or cry ! Wear and strike weakness are two completely different things. And the TPGs know it, always have known it, just like any knowledgeable collector knows it - as well as how to tell one from the other. </p><p><br /></p><p>But I will grant you this, since 2004 the TPGs have routinely used the excuse on many coins that wear is not wear, but a weak strike. So yeah, they&#039;ve learned how to do that alright ! And, they have learned how to say that wear caused by coins being in rolls, flips, coin albums etc is not wear either because of what caused it. Claiming that the only time wear &quot;counts&quot; or is really wear, is when it was caused as a result of a coin being in actual circulation. Of course they don&#039;t bother to tell anyone that <u>there is absolutely no way one can be distinguished from the other</u>, by anybody ! </p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah, they&#039;ve learned alright. They&#039;ve learned how to lie and to come up with ridiculous excuses that a lot of the public will believe just because it is a TPG saying it ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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