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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2284341, member: 112&quot;]If only that were true. Don&#039;t me wrong now, personally I agree with you completely, thus my first comment. Sadly though, the TPGs do not agree. Their rules as to what does or does not define damage are arbitrary. For example, a Roosevelt dime with a scratch of a given size will be put in a Genuine slab. But a Seated dime, or a Barber, or sometimes even a Merc, with a scratch of equal size will be cleanly graded. But then again when the scratch is big enough the Merc, the Barber, the Seated, will also get the Genuine slab. Unless of course that particular date is scarce, and then that particular coin even though it has a scratch of equal size, is cleanly graded. The same follows with coins of a certain pedigree, or a certain value as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m just using dimes here as the example, but the same follows with any coin regardless of denomination. And it&#039;s not just with scratches, but all of their problem coin designations. They change the rules as it suits them. And this should not be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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