One thing keeping me from getting coins graded...

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CoinCorgi, suggested: "You've clearly mastered (then butchered) fonts. Now try mastering the quote options."

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Read the article ---interview with john Albanese re: cac- he says that when a coin is expensive- graders have a hard time grading it properly (at high grades). WHAT? cost of coin/value of coin should have absolutely no bearing on the grade- it should be the coin sitting infront of them and what merits it has. That is so ridiculous and proof that they intentionally (grading services) tamper with price and populations because they don't "THINK" you deserve that ms65. unreal. DIRECT QUOTE:
If we consider market grading, and you’re sitting in the grading room when looking at a MS-65 Morgan $1 that came down from $800 to $80, and you’re doing a competent job, you’re grading a coin differently at $80 than you were when it was $800.

That Natural process allows the grader to be more relaxed when grading. He might be thinking, “The coin has a couple marks, but it’s okay for a 65.” He’s justified to do that but it lead to gradeflation. It wasn’t a conscious attempt of the services to do this; they reacted to the market.
WHY? If the coin is the same coin- the grading company should not have any concern what it costs- but grade it on the merits of the coin.

www.caccoin.com/cac-in-the-news/an-interview-with-john-albanese-by-maurice-rosen/

 

It has nothing to do with whether they think you deserve a grade or not. What it’s saying is the high value coins are the hardest to grade as the most is on the line with those. It’s also a reference to not wanting to give a dog of a coin a high grade.

It is true though they’re the hardest to grade, pretty much no matter what they do they get criticized with those by a lot of people. More importantly though high ms grades are the hardest part of the scale. It’s much easier in the circulates grades especially below au those are pretty straight forward. Gem and up is splitting hairs

 

Look at it this way - if your coin will either set a new "finest known", or tie for finest known, it will have to do so with quite a bit of scrutiny. If it's just another one at grade X, it is an easier call.