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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2060828, member: 46237&quot;]But I don&#039;t have any contempt for TPGs. Evolving grading standards are a perfectly natural thing. My point is only that very few grading parties can be truly objective. I think TPGs are fairly consistent in their grading. I also know they give clean grades to some &quot;problem&quot; coins where they deem the problems to be market acceptable. I don&#039;t have a problem with that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also don&#039;t have a problem with problem coins. Most of it is hype. A coin is either an attractive coin or it&#039;s an unattractive coin. Some of my favorite coins are &quot;problem&quot; coins that I find very attractive, and there are likewise plenty of &quot;problem free&quot; coins that are unattractive. Almost all coins have problems, to include natural wear. It&#039;s just that natural wear is easy to describe with the Sheldon scale and that makes it easy to price, whereas all other problems are unique and must be priced subjectively. Just because a TPG can&#039;t issue a price guarantee on a coin with non natural wear problems due to the inherent subjectivity doesn&#039;t mean the coin is not valuable or collectible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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