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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2445246, member: 78153&quot;]How do you conclude that a sample of two confirms or refutes anything?</p><p><br /></p><p>There are no absolutes in grading and from a financial standpoint, it is perception of accuracy and especially consistency, not how &quot;accurate&quot; any grading service is or is not.</p><p><br /></p><p>At this point in time, SEGS is not viewed at parity with NGC and PCGS, period.&nbsp; That is a fact whether any specific coins cross or not and whether any supporters of SEGS (or any other grading service) like it or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>What this means in practice is a self re-enforcing spiral where any coins that most buyers believe will cross at grade (and sometimes one or more below it) will be cracked out.&nbsp; This will leave the &quot;over graded&quot; and &quot;problem&quot; coins in SEGS or other TPG holders further re-enforcing the perception of inferiority.</p><p><br /></p><p>What the examples you used really demonstrate is that there frequently isn&#039;t a dime&#039;s worth of substantive difference between coins one or even multiple points apart on the Sheldon scale.&nbsp; Of course, collectors don&#039;t want to admit it today because that would bring into question the merits of the existing pricing structure and God forbid, with it the value of the more expensive and higher grade coins as &quot;investments&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two ways to approach it.&nbsp; Either learn how to apply the existing market grading standards effectively.&nbsp; This is something the OP obviously did not do.&nbsp; Or, buy coins where this criteria doesn&#039;t matter or is a lot less important.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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