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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 397462, member: 5629&quot;]Ditto, except for the excerpt that I quoted.&nbsp; I do not believe it is necessarily a fact that people, for the most part, make a &quot;mistake&quot; grading their raw coins.&nbsp; Remember that grading is subjective, and I&#039;m not using that as an excuse either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amongst the varied TPG&#039;s, I am sure we can all agree that they have their own set of standards that are used.&nbsp; NGC most certainly does not have the same standards as SEGS, and neither does SEGS have the same standards as PCGS.&nbsp; ANACS will certainly be said to have a different standard than coins in a PCI slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not necessarily a simple difference in the abilities of the graders, either.&nbsp; PCGS will not tolerate a grader who cannot grade in accordance with the standards that they implement through their policies and procedures.&nbsp; Their graders must have a specific method, if not philosophy, in their grading.&nbsp; Likewise, a grader will not simply move from NGC to ANACS, without at least the slightest &quot;re-educating&quot; into their own standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Though the TPGs may mostly have a common root in their standards, they are not the same standard.&nbsp; I would liken it to the Romance languages.&nbsp; A person who is fluent in Spanish will have a pretty easy time with Portuguese.&nbsp; Latin and Italian, though with different fluctuations in accenting words, and pronunciation, can pretty much be made at least a little sense of by someone who is fluent in Spanish.&nbsp; Likewise, someone who speaks French, may have a hard time at it, but can get along, I am sure, in a Spanish speaking environment, provided that the speech is slow enough and pronounced hard enough to correlate the word roots.</p><p><br /></p><p>If something has the same root, the derivatives can be very similar.&nbsp; That is why MS66 can vary between TPGs.&nbsp; Although they may have a common root in their grading standards, there are still minute differences.&nbsp; TPGs that hold more in common to the root standard, come closer to being &quot;crossed over&quot; successfully.</p><p><br /></p><p>And in this is the problem.&nbsp; Not that &quot;non-professional&quot; individuals do not know how to grade, nor that they grade incorrectly, per se.&nbsp; But, the problem is that there are so many different &quot;standards&quot;, that individuals tend to have a most definite bias (and no, hatred has NOTHING to do with the word bias.&nbsp; It simply is defined as a leaning, or preference) toward a certain standard, all their own, that they grade their coins on.</p><p><br /></p><p>A person who is in the practice of cracking out for resubmissions have a plethora of standards to consider.&nbsp; With coin in hand, a person can pretty much make a determination of a grade within a point.&nbsp; However, the plastic does actually cover quite a bit.&nbsp; For a few, this may be a valid reason as to why they may choose to crack out rather than to resubmit in holder.</p><p><br /></p><p>Without the plastic, flaws that may have been dulled are more easily determined, as well as perfections in areas the plastic indicated possible imperfection.&nbsp; In our bias, we may prefer the standard used by ANACS, and be able to submit to ANACS with 99% accuracy.&nbsp; But, submitting to PCGS, using that same standard, may bring our percentage down to 60% success within a two point spread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even &quot;the professionals&quot; do not try to play the game by multiple rules.&nbsp; This is the only mistake that I see with people that miss the point on the crack out game.&nbsp; They can sometimes let the slab insert cloud their judgment, use the &quot;wrong standard&quot;, drink too much of another company&#039;s kool-aid, but I would not necessarily say that their mistake was simply improper grading because of the individual&#039;s ability</p><p><br /></p><p>Especially when it comes to a hobby where the state of the collected item is so subjective, I would not necessarily say that a &quot;professional grader&quot; (that is, one who grades in a professional capacity for monetary recompense) &quot;grades right&quot; or &quot;grades wrong&quot;.&nbsp; The professional grades in accordance with the policies and procedures outlined to them by their employer.&nbsp; Neither will I say that the hobbyist &quot;grades right&quot; or &quot;grades wrong&quot; with any coin.&nbsp; Grading is subjective.&nbsp; What one person perceives in a coin, another may well either miss or outright disregard.&nbsp; Bias on color, toning, light cleaning, secondary and tertiary detractions, etc.&nbsp; It is all subjective.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people tolerate more than others.&nbsp; And that&#039;s alright.&nbsp; But, really, unless you are falsely attributing the imaginary &quot;perfect 70&quot;, or calling cull a perfectly good slider, there is really no right or wrong in grading.&nbsp; It is all subjective.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, when it comes to cracking out and resubmitting:&nbsp; If you&#039;re gonna play the game, be prepared to feel the pain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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