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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1202751, member: 66&quot;]The grading services want to maintain the fiction that it doesn&#039;t matter when a coin was graded and that a coin graded in 1986 is not differnt from that same grade in 1990, or 1994, or 1999 etc&nbsp; That a 65 is a 65 is a 65 no matter when it was graded and that the services standards have never varied.&nbsp; Those people who have been around awhile know this is not true and that at some times grading has been more strict and at other times looser.&nbsp; The problem was that if you did know that grading was looser in say the early 1990 you might want to avoid slabs from that period, but since no one knew how to tell when a coin was slabbed you had problems doing that.&nbsp; My identification of the different slab generations and when each was produced helps to defeat the TPG&#039;s fiction.&nbsp; It is one of the reason PCGS does not like me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately since I do not buy slabbed coins, I have never paid much attention to how well they graded during each of the generation periods.&nbsp; So all I can tell you is when a slab was made, but not whether the grading at the time was tight or loose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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