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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1446326, member: 15309&quot;]That is not an apt analogy Chris, and you know it!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wow, this is exactly the mentality that I was talking about earlier.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care how long you have been collecting coins Chris, you simply don&#039;t have the experience and expertise of a professional grader.&nbsp; They go to work and grade coins all day long.&nbsp; In short, they are experts.&nbsp; You and everyone else here is an amateur.&nbsp; Some are rank amateurs.&nbsp; To claim that <b>MANY</b> here can grade better than the experts at NGC or PCGS is absolutely ludicrous.&nbsp; Now if you wanted to say that you don&#039;t agree with the grading standards applied by the TPG&#039;s and you prefer the strict grading style employed by some members here, that would make sense.&nbsp; But you need to understand that the grading method applied by the TPG&#039;s is what is accepted in the broader marketplace.&nbsp; You have the luxury of not having to worry about that since you don&#039;t sell your coins, but for those that do, they are pretty much obligated to use the grading standards employed by the TPG&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So to you and Doug, &quot;wear is wear&quot;, but in the broader numismatic market that does not hold true.&nbsp; US coins are not overgraded, they are market graded.&nbsp; Do you know how long PCGS waited to tackle this issue in their book:&nbsp; PCGS THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO COIN GRADING AND COUNTERFEIT DETECTION?&nbsp; It is on page 16 Chris.&nbsp; My question to you Chris, is why should anyone concern themselves with how coins USED to be graded?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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