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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3312723, member: 112"]I agree completely, but that is NOT how the TPGs do things, and it never has been !</p><p><br /></p><p>There are more coins than you'd care to count that are graded on completely different standards than other coins, even entire types that are graded differently ! Take large cents for example, the vast majority of them in problem free slabs, if the exact same issues were found on other types those coins would be in problem coin slabs. And that's just 1 example, there are plenty of others.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line the reality is it goes like this. If a coin is of a certain value, scarcity, rarity, variety, error, pedigree - and probably a few others that I'm not thinking of off the top of my head - the TPGs will grade those coins differently than they do other coins. And they have always done it this way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3312723, member: 112"]I agree completely, but that is NOT how the TPGs do things, and it never has been ! There are more coins than you'd care to count that are graded on completely different standards than other coins, even entire types that are graded differently ! Take large cents for example, the vast majority of them in problem free slabs, if the exact same issues were found on other types those coins would be in problem coin slabs. And that's just 1 example, there are plenty of others. Bottom line the reality is it goes like this. If a coin is of a certain value, scarcity, rarity, variety, error, pedigree - and probably a few others that I'm not thinking of off the top of my head - the TPGs will grade those coins differently than they do other coins. And they have always done it this way.[/QUOTE]
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