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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1447007, member: 26302&quot;]Its not lost on me at all Paul. I bash a few of aspects of TPG, the fact they use US grading standards and system for ancients, they have demonstrably loosened their grading standards, and they refuse to use a universal set of grading standards. See the similarity? It has to do with them NOT adhering their grades to accepted standards. </p><p><br /></p><p>The truth is most people only slab to get a &quot;grade&quot;. To me that is the least valuable part of slabbing. I love authentication. I like how they prevent some damaged coins from being certified. Both of these things can be tremendously good for a beginning collector especially. I have never said I was against that aspect of TPG, and in fact have many times told people only to buy certified examples of coins like the 16d dime and 14d cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>IF the grade aspect of slabbing were removed, you would not really here a peep from me against slabbing if someone wished to pay for that protection. Its all of the problems associated with how they grade, how their system allows regrades, (therefor leading to a highest possible grade on a slab), etc that I protest about. Well, that and the opinion of TPG snobs who post here saying things like, &quot;that might be a good coin if it were in a slab&quot; and the like. Coin collecting was fine before TPG, and snobs who believe only a slabbed coin is worthy of collecting to me are just showing their ignorance. </p><p><br /></p><p>Truth be told Paul, you actually surprised me yesterday when you asked WHY should anyone know how to grade the old fashioned way. Do you really believe everything that came before PCGS is irrelevant now? I guess I am just too fond of history, including US numismatic history, to ever believe that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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