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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 3444227, member: 73489&quot;]Even though PCGS won&#039;t be formally doing anymore paper grading, the same team is doing it under a new name, right ?</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>I believe PCGS/Collector Universe is publicly traded, doubt that LG is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, and there&#039;s alot to be said for that.&nbsp; At the same time, you had much wider grading discrepancies between 2 interested parties, 1 of whom wanted the most $$$ for the item (high grade) and the other who wanted to to pay less $$$ for it (lower grade).</p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever the flaws, loss of grading acumen, or questionable TPG grades, on the whole....TPGs have made the paper and coin hobbies much more transparent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody can deny that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Funny to see folks call for breaking out PCGS stuff to cross-over; of course, with coins it&#039;s the other way around usually (NGC to PCGS).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>One of the things to consider is that many of the NGC-graded coins were done many years ago whereas the PCGS Currency grades are more recent. </b> So I don&#039;t know if there will be as many cross-over benefits.&nbsp; There could, I&#039;m not an expert.&nbsp; But aside from mis-graded product, the thought was that perhaps the graders were tougher 15-30 years ago and &quot;new&quot; graders would be more likely to increase a coin a grade or so.&nbsp; Just as it&#039;s less likely to get that boost from an NGC coin graded 5 years ago than one 25 years ago, I think the PCGC Currency benefit is going to be minimal unless PMG is notoriously loose with their standards (which doesn&#039;t seem to be the case).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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