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<p>[QUOTE="TheMont, post: 2653275, member: 80121"]Keep in mind even the TPGS admit that grading and authorizing coins is not a science. That's why they use, for the most part, two people to render and opinion and then add a third to have the final say. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those people who crack out coins and resubmit them would stop if they didn't get, on occasion, a higher grade. I know Dealers who have cracked out the same coin 5 or 6 times when the difference in grade means big money. At one time the TPGS even experimented with computer grading to eliminate the human factor, but that didn't work either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a set of silver proof Kennedy dollars in the PCGS Registry program. The coins are 1964 and then 1992 to date. The coins I have from 1992 on are all graded PR70 DCAM, it's the 1964 that's the killer. The best I've been able to get certified is a PR69Cam, so I'm tied for second place. The very few PR69DCAMs that I have found for sale are in the $4,000 range which puts them out of my range, so I continue to try and cherry pick dealers stock and hope for the best. I have several PR69CAM, but just can't seem to get the TPGS to give any that I've sent in PR69DCAM. And so the quest continues...[ATTACH=full]587286[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My latest try.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheMont, post: 2653275, member: 80121"]Keep in mind even the TPGS admit that grading and authorizing coins is not a science. That's why they use, for the most part, two people to render and opinion and then add a third to have the final say. Those people who crack out coins and resubmit them would stop if they didn't get, on occasion, a higher grade. I know Dealers who have cracked out the same coin 5 or 6 times when the difference in grade means big money. At one time the TPGS even experimented with computer grading to eliminate the human factor, but that didn't work either. I have a set of silver proof Kennedy dollars in the PCGS Registry program. The coins are 1964 and then 1992 to date. The coins I have from 1992 on are all graded PR70 DCAM, it's the 1964 that's the killer. The best I've been able to get certified is a PR69Cam, so I'm tied for second place. The very few PR69DCAMs that I have found for sale are in the $4,000 range which puts them out of my range, so I continue to try and cherry pick dealers stock and hope for the best. I have several PR69CAM, but just can't seem to get the TPGS to give any that I've sent in PR69DCAM. And so the quest continues...[ATTACH=full]587286[/ATTACH] My latest try.[/QUOTE]
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