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Message:: [QUOTE="krispy, post: 1096607, member: 19065"]I agree, the MPC shown graded VF25 is much more a solid example representative of that grade and better than the one I posted. While I admit human error is something we must contend with, it seems hard to accept in such a case when it comes from a professional grading service, one with measures in place to double or even triple check the work of individual graders. Accuracy is the very crux of their industry, yet we find examples that seem to defy their best attempts. When so many of us easily formed a consensus that the note was in fact not representative of a VF 30 PPQ going by each of our own personal experience as well as comparing to the published grading standards by PCGS, it is harder to accept their error unless there are other factors such as exceptions for common notes, carelessness for low grade common notes, or something of that nature. I'm not upset or resistant to their services and assessment of the note, just baffled how such an obvious batch of problems got a higher grade attached. We may never know, but better images for an auction listing combined with the higher grade might well draw realized prices that are skewed from what even both experienced and less-experienced buyers might have parted with had the note been in a more accurately labeled holder. I still reserve the notion that an error in labeling the note when it was encapsulated could be the culprit.[/QUOTE]