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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 470514, member: 112&quot;]That wasn&#039;t always the case though Lehigh. Like you, I agree that the vast majority of NGC and PCGS coins are graded correctly. And if you were to go back through the older threads you&#039;d see that the vast majority of the time I agreed with their grades. It used to be even that if you showed me a pic of a raw coin and then told me which one you were sending it to - I&#039;d tell you what it would be graded. And I was right the vast majority of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>But these past couple of years things have changed. I mean really changed. But I haven&#039;t. And in all honesty, it took me a while to admit to myself that the TPG&#039;s were slipping. I had always backed them, recommended them, still do of course, but not to the degree that I used to. </p><p><br /></p><p>And I don&#039;t really like to think of myself as being tough or extra strict on grading. I just think of myself as being honest on grading. Yeah, I follow the ANA standards when I give my own grades. And the ANA standards are tougher than those used by the TPG&#039;s - so that stands to reason. But I know how the TPG&#039;s grade too, or at least I used to. Today, I&#039;d have to bump it a grade to be accurate. That&#039;s just the way it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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