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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2104721, member: 73489&quot;]Tom, I think your timeline overlaps pretty much what I have read and heard from a few people who were active back then. You could nit-pick a bit between the last of the OGH&#039;s and the early Blues, but the ones about 2003-04 definitely coincided with loosening standards (maybe why CAC was formed a few years later ?).</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>What I can&#039;t figure out is if during the actual coin bubble of 1988-90 the standards changed.&nbsp; </b>You would think you might be able to &#039;get away&#039; with looser standards when prices are rising 10-20% a month or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>You would think either existing graders might subconsciously loosen during heightened activity (the bubble) and also if the torrent of grade requests led to inexperienced graders working for the TPGs.&nbsp; That&#039;s above my pay grade.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>There does appear to be SOMEWHAT -- not super-strong -- but somewhat of a link that looser grading accompanies a rising gold price.</b>&nbsp; The rising gold price would normally be associated with rising coin prices (except where the premiums deflated).&nbsp; But it&#039;s not one I would expect a very high R-squared or whatever they call it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Did you actually find big demand for toned coins back then ?&nbsp; I thought that was a recent phenomena.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Tom, what do you mean with the reference to &#039;problem coin&#039; and getting tough on certain problems in the last 15 years ?&nbsp; Can you elaborate ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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