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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1435283, member: 112&quot;]Morgandude - </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe there&#039;s a couple of reasons for some for some of the responses. 1- some folks just disagree with you. No real biggie there, folks disagree with me all the time around here. &#039;Course I often disagree with them too. And if everybody agreed with everybody else, it&#039;d be kind of boring. </p><p><br /></p><p>2 - Not everybody agrees with the way the TPGs grade coins. There was a time when I would agree with most of their grades, but those days are gone I&#039;m afraid. It is my belief that the TPGs changed their grading standards in 2004, and IMO it&#039;s been downhill from there. There are some who agree with me on that, and others who disagree with me on that.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the PCGS pics you posted, I really wish they&#039;d never have done that. I mean, yeah it serves a purpose, but it also does a lot of harm for folks trying to learn how to grade and confuses even more folks. That&#039;s because people look at those pictures and then think that any coin that has a similar amount of marks, or a similar amount of luster, or a similar anything should grade the same as what they say those pics do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately that isn&#039;t how it works with grading. Sometimes a coin can have a lot fewer marks than one in those pics, but that doesn&#039;t mean it will grade better than the coin in the pics. There could be 4 or 5 other things that hold the grade down, or boost the grade up. Or, a coin in one of those pics may look to have great luster, when it really doesn&#039;t. Or it may look to have poor luster, when it really doesn&#039;t. And that&#039;s where some folks get confused from looking at pics for grade examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pictures are terrible for people trying to learn how to grade, there is just too much more that goes into it that you can&#039;t see in pictures. And sometimes pictures don&#039;t show things that you would see if you looked at the coin in hand. And other times pictures do show things that you missed when you looked at it in hand. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess what I&#039;m trying to say is that when you are discussing a coin&#039;s grade, and of course a picture is all we have to go by, posting a picture of another graded coin and trying to use that as an indication of the grade of the one you are discussing - well, it quite often doesn&#039;t work.</p><p><br /></p><p>But anyway, don&#039;t get discouraged if folks disagree with you, or disagree about the grade of a coin. It is going to happen. But that&#039;s why we&#039;re all here, to talk about such things and hopefully learn something. To me the most important thing any of us can do is keep an open mind and try to see things from other&#039;s point of view. And if ya disagree then ya disagree. But it&#039;s no biggie, it just is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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