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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 404389, member: 4920&quot;]The market shouldn&#039;t determine grades. Grading should be in a world of its own, and the market should simply assign values to the grades. But I read in these threads (as I&#039;m sure you did, too), such things as how an XF Buffalo nickel is now only a 3/4-horn, and how a coin&#039;s &quot;pedigree&quot; now somehow has grading significance. You ask me, that&#039;s all baloney. Yet, take a start-up TPG like DGS (ostensibly, at least, grading by traditional criteria...which, don&#039;t mistake it, does have a subjective component to it, in addition to the more objective &quot;checkpoints&quot;). What chance do they have against the &quot;market graders&quot; who in general are assigning higher grades to the same kinds of coins? I understand and applaud the &quot;niche&quot; DGS is taking cognizance of, and attempting to fill. But I think it&#039;s going to be an uphill battle to wrestle away any significant market share like that (at least, in the reasonably-foreseeable future). If they can stick it out and see it through, though, there may come a time when their slabs are selling at one even two &quot;market grades&quot; higher than their assigned grade because everybody is going to know their grades are equivalent to one even two &quot;market grades&quot; higher. DGS does this right and sees it through and they&#039;re not going to need any &quot;CAC&quot; stickers on their slabs, because their grades are already going to be given the highest respect in the industry. But, again, that&#039;s likely going to take time, not to mention a lot of determination...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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