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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2016297, member: 15309&quot;]I google searched &quot;PCGS overgrading&quot; and found the following articles.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cmi-gold-silver.com/article/pcgs-ngc-coins-grading-services/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cmi-gold-silver.com/article/pcgs-ngc-coins-grading-services/" rel="nofollow">PCGS, NGC Coin Grading Scam Alert</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Turns out this article is not about PCGS overgrading, rather how the TPGs were instrumental in ending overgrading.&nbsp; Here is a quote from the article.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">&quot;Grading services came to life because of the rampant practice of overgrading, which led to major rip-offs of unsuspecting gold coin buyers. The slabbing of coins has pretty much ended the practice of overgrading.&quot;</span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.usgoldexpert.com/articles/the-10-greatest-myths-of-slabbed-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usgoldexpert.com/articles/the-10-greatest-myths-of-slabbed-coins/" rel="nofollow">THE 10 GREATEST MYTHS OF ‘SLABBED’ COINS</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Myth #4: Slabbing has established a completely fixed, totally consistent grading standard.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if you go on to read Travers comments about this myth, it relates more to the inherent subjectivity of coin grading than a deliberate loosening of grading standards.&nbsp; I have often stated that gradeflation is the result of subjectivity.&nbsp; While some graders might consider a coin a high end MS65, other graders might consider that same coin a low end MS66.&nbsp; If there is a large enough jump in price from MS65 to MS66, eventually that coin will reside in an MS66 holder.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, Travers also discusses the internal use of A,B,C to describe incremental grading within a numerical grade while he worked as a grader for NGC in the late 80&#039;s.&nbsp; Sounds like the foundation of the CAC was created very early on in the grading rooms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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