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Message:: [QUOTE="torontokuba, post: 1879108, member: 56793"]I'll throw a little something out there... Maybe, just maybe, getting stuck in the baby steps or early days of TPG's existence is not so accurate after all. Is it not a possibility, that the conservative beginnings of companies like PCGS, ANACS, NGC, etc. were a little too conservative for the Sheldon Coin Grading Scale? Maybe they started grading and realized, based on an increasing number of coin submissions, that they were never coming close to the MS-70, no matter how many bags of mint coins they opened. I believe these TPG's are still in the baby steps stages of their existence and evolving into the Sheldon Scale limits. How accurate is an AU opinion if you can't find a coin that comes close to mid MS as a result? Sounds like an opinion for the birds. The balance is still being established and 30 years is not a long time in the Hobby of Kings. What was once considered to be AU, can evolve into MS after seeing countless mint examples and never spotting ones subjective opinion of what perfection should be. Different coins struck at different times will represent different quality from the mints. Sometimes perfection might have to be brought down a notch.[/QUOTE]