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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 183648, member: 3813&quot;]I was about to chime in support for Speedy (who is asking the right questions IMHO), but this does bring an interesting point.&nbsp; I do not however, feel that it automatically eliminates SGS from being &quot;a grading company&quot; (because they only grade &quot;their own&quot; coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line is that although the top grading companies would like you to believe there&#039;s something magical about the service they provide, it&#039;s not that complicated.&nbsp; Presumably you have &quot;coin experts&quot; -people with years of training that can detect cleaning, counterfeits, and other damage.&nbsp; Their experience gives them the ability to assign number grades for &quot;eye appeal&quot; -and that number is pretty hard to dispute, because it is subjective.&nbsp; When you send your coins in, you really have no idea who (or how many people) looked at your coin, what their level of experience is (to my knowledge there&#039;s no PhD of coin grading), if it was looked at for 30 seconds or 30 minutes, nor any real idea why it did, or did not meet a certain grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>So anyhow, through a complex system, your coin is assigned a final grade.&nbsp; Again, it&#039;s mighty subjective and it&#039;s just one opinion.&nbsp; How do we know this?&nbsp; Well, if we were to submit the same coin over and over to this grading company, it is possible the grade will change.&nbsp; Submitting it to another company might yield another grade.&nbsp; If one company assigns it MS68 and another MS69, is one of them wrong?</p><p><br /></p><p>You might not like SGS.&nbsp; You might think their grading is complete rubbish.&nbsp; But are they *not* a grading company?&nbsp; Where is the &quot;charter of grading companies&quot; that outlines exactly what a grading company is?&nbsp; Where&#039;s the law?&nbsp; Where are the rules?&nbsp; Where does it say that PCGS can take your money, give their opinion and put the coin in a piece of plastic, but *I* can&#039;t do the same thing?&nbsp; Where does it say (plain as day on paper) that that company that assigned the MS69 is wrong, and that the grade of&nbsp; the coin *is* MS68?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I don&#039;t like SGS more than most of you, but I think people romanticize what a grading company *is* just a tad too much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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