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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2280059, member: 112"]Skip and Randy, are indeed two of the very best coin graders there are. But ya see, they don't get to grade coins the way "they" would grade the coins. They have to grade coins the way the company they work for "tells" them to grade coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>In other words if Skip or Randy were to give you their personal opinion of coin's grade they might well say the coin is an AU55 or AU58. But when they give you the opinion of the company they work for, that grade suddenly becomes MS63 or even MS64. And the same thing goes for every grader who works for every TPG.</p><p><br /></p><p>Skip has even written several articles about this, some as long as 8-10 years ago. One was even titled something along the lines of - The AU coins of yesterday are the MS coins of today. Randy was writing articles about it over a decade ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2280059, member: 112"]Skip and Randy, are indeed two of the very best coin graders there are. But ya see, they don't get to grade coins the way "they" would grade the coins. They have to grade coins the way the company they work for "tells" them to grade coins. In other words if Skip or Randy were to give you their personal opinion of coin's grade they might well say the coin is an AU55 or AU58. But when they give you the opinion of the company they work for, that grade suddenly becomes MS63 or even MS64. And the same thing goes for every grader who works for every TPG. Skip has even written several articles about this, some as long as 8-10 years ago. One was even titled something along the lines of - The AU coins of yesterday are the MS coins of today. Randy was writing articles about it over a decade ago.[/QUOTE]
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