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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 2035668, member: 15929"]Your comment is the exact situation which exists today. On both levels. The TPG's are just grading services which are selling "opinions" of grade. Nothing more and nothing less.Exactly ZERO percent of their "opinions" are exactly right since the "grade" of a coin is not really a technical aspect of its condition. The "grade" is what the graders feel the coin be attract in market sales. The market sales are based upon either their experience OR data which they have collected from various sources. (i.e. Authorized Dealers, collectors, major auction houses, minor auction houses) Your last statement goes without saying in that "coin collectors" as whole are usually encumbered with some level of OCD and having a collection of "mixed grades" is usually out of the question. Having grades within different slab types is also a no no. Most slab collectors (meaning NOT Coin Dealers) prefer one TPG over the other and it really has absolutely nothing to do with assigned grade as much as it has to do with presenation consistency.[/QUOTE]