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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 295547, member: 4552&quot;]I know and admit I know nothing about technical or any other types of grading. I am completely pesimistic as to any type of grading. I&#039;ve noticed way to many times people have submitted a coin that was in a slab from one TPG to another and received a different grade. I&#039;ve noticed that the lighting at some coin shows make coins look different than when you get home. Seen the same effect at coin shops. I&#039;ve asked so called experts as to thier idea of a grade on a coin and get several different answers from different people. I&#039;ve shown the same coin to a so called expert a few weeks apart and got two different answers. Regardless of what it is called, everyone seems to have a different interpretation on what the grading system is all about. I am very leary of the latest terminologies used in the coin collecting industry and it is becoming an industry. </p><p>Possibly being from a time in history when there was only a few grades for coins, only a few coin books, no TV shows selling colored coins and plenty of old coins in circulation, makes me irritated with so many types of explanations of my hobby. I&#039;ve seen web sites with actual coin collecting terminology. We&#039;ve come far when this hobby now has it&#039;s own vocabulary. I have enough trouble with just English. </p><p>Sorry but I&#039;ll still stick to G, F, Unc and Proof until no one knows what I&#039;m talking about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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