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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1406267, member: 13650&quot;]Yikes!&nbsp; 50% is not very good.&nbsp; I agree with others though that it is not a surprise that opinions vary.&nbsp; The grades are highly subjective, especially when it comes to MS conditions.&nbsp;&nbsp; Personally, I think a MS-62 and a MS-63 Morgan is almost the same thing.&nbsp; A nice 64 and a 65 are almost the same thing.&nbsp;&nbsp; The 66&#039;s you can usually tell are a notch above the rest.&nbsp;&nbsp; So it isn&#039;t a surprise to me people would be off by one grade in that contest.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; As someone else mentioned, the grading is probably more accurate for a contest than what they normally do.&nbsp; They may be good but I question if 5 to 10 seconds is enough time to adequately judge coins on a daily basis?&nbsp; &nbsp; The only way to know is to submit the same coin, raw, several times and see what happens.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know it&#039;s been done and I know the grade has changed.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The process is what it is.&nbsp; Maybe the next endeavor will be a new grading company that will claim to be better than NGC and PCGS and will only accept a limited amount of coins to grade at a given time.&nbsp;&nbsp; Allowing for slower, more thorough grading, which will cause them to be trusted more than what we have now.&nbsp; Then everybody will want to cross over.&nbsp;&nbsp; Wouldn&#039;t surprise me to see it happen some day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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