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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 183287, member: 3813&quot;]...which doesn&#039;t make much sense either if you think about it.&nbsp; The highest grade is unobtainable?&nbsp; So that makes the highest grade the one before the unobtainable one.&nbsp; Thus they might not give out 70&#039;s but they might give 69&#039;s like candy, so what&#039;s the difference?</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see *no* reason *not* to give a coin a certain grade, should it meet the qualifications of that grade.&nbsp; Problem is, those &quot;qualifications&quot; and the entire system used to grade is entirely subjective, thus it&#039;s not overly surprising that it&#039;s full of b.s.&nbsp; It&#039;s one thing to try to determine wear on an older coin, and another to give points for &quot;eye appeal&quot; and &quot;luster&quot; with any sort of accuracy and consistency.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the NCG submissions, I see it like this...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2006-W Gold Proof Buffalos</b></p><p>13,319 Submissions.....6,705 received PR70UCAM (50.3%)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2006-W Gold MS Buffalos</b></p><p>66,921 Submissions.....33,442 received MS70 grades (49.9%)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2006-W Silver American Eagle Proof</b></p><p>23,020 Submissions.....12,649 received PF70UCAM (54.9%)</p><p><br /></p><p>To me that doesn&#039;t show that NCG hands out 70&#039;s like candy, it shows that NGC found no reason to deduct points for about half the coins submitted.&nbsp; Seems reasonable to say that, after looking at a bunch of them, one could determine what the &quot;best&quot; looks like, and assign the highest grade to coins that match that.&nbsp; (Similar to seeing that some years of certain coins are weakly struck, and thus that knowledge is used to grade those particular coin years.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If other companys want to undergrade and/or play the low population and/or resubmit game, so be it.&nbsp; I think every submitted coin should come with a report detailing exactly what *each* of the graders (if more than one looks at the coin) sees and why the coin gets the grade it gets, the calculations, and the grading guide used.&nbsp; In other words, justify it and implement some accountability.&nbsp;&nbsp; While I&#039;m wishing, bring back the dual grades (obverse and reverse).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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