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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3703692, member: 93416&quot;]Yes - I suspected so, apologies if I seemed to suggest otherwise</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks.&nbsp; As I feared</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Grading was absolutely vital in postal trading prior to relatively recent technological advances in print costs and then the internet.&nbsp; The standards were rather well understood by all moderately serious collectors.&nbsp; So its odd to see &#039;professional graders&#039; today who depart from those standards.&nbsp; (Meanwhile the price of common coins has surely more than doubled, to cover the cost of making individual pictures, but such is progress......)</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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