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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 925666, member: 19423&quot;]Charmy has been publicly stating she felt the coin was a 65 from the day she purchased it.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen the coin in hand and based on the PCGS/NGC grading standards, I agreed that a grade of 65BN would be appropriate based on other 65BN Lincolns I&#039;ve seen (though I haven&#039;t compared to other &#039;14-D examples).&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, most of us know that the graders aren&#039;t perfect and that one day they&#039;ll see a coin as a 64, the next a 65 and maybe the next as a 63...&nbsp; that&#039;s just the way grading works, regardless of the expertise of the graders and the number of graders/finalizers.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen where the same coin (copper cent) go in for grading at a TPG and get a 65 one day, a 64 another, then a 63 and finally a 67!!!!!&nbsp; In that case, the correct grade was probably a 66, but the TPG disagreed each time... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Doug, with all due respect I find many of your posts in this thread off-topic.&nbsp; This thread is about Charmy&#039;s coin and whether that particular coin deserved an upgrade... PCGS determined that it was worthy of a 65 at this time, regardless of the opinions of the graders on the previous gradings.&nbsp; Many of your posts deal with generalizations about third-party grading and gradflation and have very little to nothing to do with Charmy&#039;s coin.&nbsp; Though you have some valid points about third-party grading and gradflation in general, a single example of a coin getting upgraded (which you state you haven&#039;t seen in hand and didn&#039;t even need to see in hand or even in photos) doesn&#039;t support your point in a case like this where the coin was selected out of scores of other graded examples by an expert in the series who probably knows how to grade this series as well as if not better than some of the graders working for the third party graders.&nbsp; Now, if we were talking about an example where an average collector bought some random copper from eBay and submitted them for regrade and got several upgrades, then your points would carry a little more weight.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Congrats on getting the coin into the correct holder![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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