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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2565732, member: 24314&quot;]baseball21 posted:&nbsp; &quot;Completely agree, for people to try and claim otherwise is really almost ignoring that fact that grading is subjective and done by humans.&nbsp; Personal in the grading rooms have changed and every individual will apply company standards a bit differently.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">NGC has had a core of graders since it began.&nbsp; The new guys learn from them.&nbsp; PCGS and the present ANACS staff probably have a similar core.&nbsp; </span></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Even if someone had been in the grading room the entire time their standards would have certainly changed at least some over the 30 plus years.&quot; </p><p><span style="color: #b300b3"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">This is true but ideally the company policy causes the changes and the graders adopt.&nbsp; That&#039;s why the early slabs often contain under graded coins by </span><span style="color: #006600">today&#039;s</span><span style="color: #b300b3"> looser standards. </span> </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;None of us will grade the exact same way in 10 years as we do now, nor would we grade the same way 40 years into the hobby as we did 20.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">Speak for yourself.</span>&nbsp; <span style="color: #b300b3">My personal grading </span><span style="color: #006600">HAS NOT CHANGED</span></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">one decimal point in almost fifty years.&nbsp; I have a </span><span style="color: #006600">TRUE STANDARD.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The changes may not be drastic but the simple fact of <span style="color: #0000b3">seeing</span> <span style="color: #0000b3">more and more coins</span> and time passing our <span style="color: #0000b3">taste</span> and <span style="color: #0000b3">opinions</span> will change at least somewhat and no one is immune from those changes no matter how subtle they may be.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">You <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> have just posted for all to see ALMOST THE EXACT WORDING used by the owner of a major TPGS to explain the reason grading has &quot;evolved&quot; at his company. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The grading changes the more they learn. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I don&#039;t really think it is a bad thing though many others might, but to be it is just the nature of human processes with subjective aspects.&nbsp; Some of the changes a lot of people will like and some they won&#039;t, no different then anything else.&nbsp; I fully expect grading to be an evolving process as time goes on as it always has been.&quot;&nbsp; <span style="color: #b300b3">True.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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