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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7853729, member: 105098&quot;]No. Dumbing down grading where a VF45 coin could be graded as a MS61 and an AU58 is a MS67 isn&#039;t the answer, nor should it ever be. Progress isn&#039;t always a good thing. Sometimes it&#039;s trying to fix things that ain&#039;t broken and it&#039;s usually done to benefit one party or another, not for the greater good of all involved. Dozens of grading companies folded over the years for giving people what they want instead of giving the actual grade of the coin, they lost their integrity and credibility doing it by making their own grading standards that, while making their customers happy, when the customers went to sell their coins at those grades they struggled to get anyone to agree with the grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading is subjective. Theres no way around that. Its an opinion, it&#039;s not the be all end all final say.. However there is acceptable opinion, then there is clearly freaking wrong. And in this instance it was done clearly freaking wrong.</p><p>The whole point of CAC and why they are in business is a quality assurance that the coin is nice or exceptional for the grade given to it. It&#039;s not so AU sliders can be seen as top quality coins it&#039;s so AU sliders are never seen as top quality coins UNLESS they are graded as AU.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not a fan of any of these services but until you or someone else comes up with a better grading system than the adjusted Sheldon Scale, that actually makes it better, I&#039;ll stick to the adjusted Sheldon Scale and so will everyone else in the hobby because that is what works.</p><p>You can call your coins whatever you like. A F20 can be a MS70 if you like but that doesn&#039;t make it any truer than PCGS calling an AU58 a MS64 which is wrong also. Now you might get someone to agree with you but that doesn&#039;t make it true either. It&#039;s all opinion. A third party grader is just a third party opinion of someone not buying or selling the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>If PCGS starts grading every AU58 as a MS64 they will destroy their reputation as surely as everyone else has in the past. Mistakes happen though but they should be exceptions, not the standard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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