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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pickin and Grinin, post: 3671595, member: 73995&quot;]How about the Franklin the one that made it into the wrong hands. Six figure coin that only a fool would have bought in that grade. It was put into a Libel situation, and somewhere some one has a history of that coin in a 63 slab, then it got passed with a pastel toning that increased the grade and value, now a 64. The next time it was seen was in a 66 slab and it only went up from there.</p><p>In my last statement I went ahead and started pulling your leg, it was on purpose. This type of situation happens all the time. A collector puts the coin in the right situation, it keeps aging and becoming more visually acceptable? I get the whole concept of surface preservation.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am really not wanting to go here. Since the TPG&#039;s have started grading. We have 58 coins being graded 62 and higher, Most of that is a restored coin getting some environmental treatment. Not an original coin getting older. You can argue this till your face is red, but it&#039;s the truth.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Usually with those that wish to only buy and sell. </p><p><br /></p><p>A collector will use his knowledge to buy the piece for it&#039;s condition not just it&#039;s originality.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can only see one word in the last statement that doesn&#039;t fit in the grading process, and that is &quot;subjectivity&quot; years ago we were taught how to grade with out using this new standard.&nbsp; Let&#039;s just say that it has opened up the system up for failure. And exactly why we have inflated grades today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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