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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;imrich, post: 1863012, member: 22331&quot;]I&#039;ve tried to retrieve the Coin World year long comparative study of the TPG published in their May 26, 2003 edition which showed the blatant disparities between TPG, inconsistencies in resubmitting the same coins repeatedly, and the inaccuracy of the most prominent services. I have librarians searching for the document which was submitted to Cointalk archives in the past, and like the internet copy, can&#039;t seem to be located. I would appreciate the moderators locating an original copy, if possible. I have previously requested same, and again am asking for retrieval assistance. I will somehow locate a copy for future reference efforts.</p><p>The following is a partial overview of the original article:</p><p><span style="font-size: 13px"><font face="-webkit-sans-serif">In the May 26, 2003 edition of <a href="http://www.coinworld.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinworld.com/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 187)">Coin World</span></a>, the hobby newspaper had announced they had contracted investigators to conduct a year-long, comparative study of PCGS, ACCGS.org, and NGC, along with several other grading services, each known as a <b>Third Party Grader</b> or TPG. In their investigation, Coin World sent several of the same coins were sent to each grading service over the course of a year, each coin being graded by all Third Party Graders sent to. The findings were; &quot;In no case did the grading services agree on the grade of any given coin, and in some cases the difference in grading was as much as seven points off&quot;. By way of example, a finding published by Coin World involved one case where ACCGS had graded a coin as &quot;cleaned&quot;, which lowers the coin value, Additionally the coin had been graded several grades lower than PCGS while PCGS had not noted the same coin was &quot;in fact, cleaned&quot;.</font></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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