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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2755068, member: 112&quot;]Yeah they saw them. The problem is they ignored them !</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Eye appeal ? Really ? The coin looks to be butt ugly to me with all that blotchy brown toning !</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That statement makes wonder about when your experience started, despite your previous claims, because contact marks and their location sure as hell used to be grade limiting for the TPGs - all of them ! So either your experience is limited to the past 10-12 years or you have a very short memory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now yeah, I&#039;ll grant you that contact marks do not limit the grade according to the TPGs anymore. They have proved that time and time again. Ever since they started loosening their grading standards, not just once but more than once, it has gotten worse and worse and worse. </p><p><br /></p><p>The thing that really gets me is that people like you are willing to accept that. And when I say people like you what I&#039;m talking about are people who are willing to accept <u>any grade</u> the TPGs give - regardless of the condition of the coin. In their eyes, no matter what, the TPG is always right. Such blind faith makes me throw my hands in the air and look to the heavens in wonder and amazement !</p><p><br /></p><p>Well I got news for ya Paul, the TPGs are not always right ! In point of fact in today&#039;s world they are wrong far, far, more often than they are right. They have gone so far over the edge that TPG grading has gotten to be a complete and total joke ! The subject coin of this thread is merely the latest example of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>And as for CAC, do I really have to explain what their sticker on this slab means ? It means that they (CAC) fully realize that the TPGs have gone so far over the top that they have to go right along with their gross over-grading if they wish to stay in business. Because to do otherwise would mean that no slab, or so few of them, would get the CAC sticker that they would have to close up shop. Because if no slab gets the sticker then people aren&#039;t going to send their coins any more.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is so far past time for people, collectors, dealers, auction houses, everybody, to stand up and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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