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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1412265, member: 112&quot;]Yes it is opinion, I agree 100%. But what is that opinion based on if it is not based on established standards ? You have to have rules to go by, you have to have established criteria for a coin to meet in order for that coin to be worthy of a given grade. In other words you can&#039;t say that this coin is MS64 and that one is MS67 unless you have a set of rules, a set of standards, that tell you why this one is MS64 and why that one is MS67.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Fair enough, but how many of those people actually know how to grade ? And what set of standards are they basing their opinions on ? But even more important, is every and any opinion equal to every and any other opinion ? Or does one opinion carry more weight than another ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me put it to you this way - PCGS grades a coin MS70. SGS grades a coin MS70. They are both opinions. But which opinion has more meaning to you ? Which opinion do you trust and believe ? Which coin would you buy ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think everybody here knows what your answers are. But now I&#039;ll ask you WHY your answers are what they are ? Is it not because you believe that PCGS has a better, a tougher, a more strict, set of grading standards than SGS has ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if that&#039;s the case, and I don&#039;t see how it could be any other case, does it not matter to you if PCGS changes their grading standards, loosens them up ? How loose can they make them until it doesn&#039;t matter any more ? If a coin was graded by PCGS 10 years ago as MS63 is cracked out and resubmitted to PCGS for grading today and it comes back MS65 - does that not matter to you ? </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s still an opinion, and it&#039;s an opinion given by the same company, but it is quite different opinion than it used to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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