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Message:: [QUOTE="Owle, post: 1884744, member: 22004"]On grading standards it comes down to money.  How much do people pay for their raw coins, how much do they pay for the slabbed coins?  Is it reasonable for PCGS, NGC, ANACS and ICG to net grade coins with minor issues numerically?  They do it every day.  I know a former grader who got really upset that PCGS seems to do that more than NGC.  Valued grading in the lower dollar figures where coins are knocked down a little due to an issue or two is a reasonable pragmatic decision.  I have seen many butt ugly coins pre-1900 especially that get graded and bought and sold without concerns as to grading standards.  Those coins are hard to sell.  I have run a fair number of coins through NCS that generally are more marketable afterwards, "cleaning" is in the eye of the grading service. I know a major dealer who can get most any coin with minor problems in an NGC or PCGS slab with his methods which he does not divulge.  That is the end result of overly fussy grading services, also the contention and trouble that is created in the collecting community when weighted judgments are not made in grading.  Mark Salzburg, David Hall, Michael Fahey, Randy Campbell, Skip Fazzari understand this very well but each of them have a different set of economic as well as business standards.[/QUOTE]