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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coleguy, post: 1363769, member: 9167&quot;]While I agree with this statement, there is another aspect to the grading done by TPG&#039;s that always seems to be ignored, even by the older collectors here who should know. TPG&#039;s, without a doubt, invented the need to know coin grades above all else. Before them, we still collected, and maybe threw a few grades around, but it wasn&#039;t the important part...the coin was. Imagine that...a coin being more important than an opinionated grade. The TPG&#039;s came along and told us grade was vital and we all needed to pay to know what our coins graded because we were stupid and uneducated collectors and they were the grading gods. So, almost 30 years later, here we are with a generation of collectors who don&#039;t know how to grade to save their lives because they have the crutch of the grading companies to fall back on. They don&#039;t care about the coin as much as the precious grade, and god forbid if someone with 40 or 50 years of collecting experience tells them their coin is overgraded or undergraded, because what can they know compared to a grader that just finished potty training the week before?</p><p><br /></p><p>TPG&#039;s serve a purpose, but that purpose isn&#039;t to make collectors lazy, uneducated, and unbending in questioning the TPG&#039;s from time to time. They are not the absolute authority- they are paid opinion givers in a field with no certainties or standards.</p><p>Guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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