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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2754758, member: 24314&quot;]&quot;TypeCoin971793, posted: <span style="color: #5900b3">&quot;What bothers me is that a premium AU-58 is given an MS-63 by a TPG because that is what they think it is worth. Then a dealer tries to market it as a premium MS-63 and an unsuspecting buyer gets sharfted. If the TPG actually graded the coin, that would not be a problem, and the market will naturally pay a premium price for the premium coins for the grade.&quot;&nbsp; </span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #5900b3"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </span><span style="color: #000000">Good thinking young man, your idea is at least forty years old.&nbsp; That&#039;s what technical grading was all about.&nbsp; Technical grading was not subjective.&nbsp; It was real.&nbsp; Lot&#039;s of us old dinosaurs have constantly expressed what you apparently just thought of to no avail.&nbsp; Grading would be simple for everyone. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Grade the coin based only on its condition of preservation and let the &quot;market&quot; price them.&nbsp; </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Then the famous rare coins that were once auctioned off as XF/AU for $5000 could still be graded XF/AU (rather than the MS-64 grade of today) and sell for two million dollars.&nbsp; It ain&#039;t going tp happen.&nbsp; Dealers want grading to be subjective and complicated.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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