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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1363812, member: 13650&quot;]I don&#039;t understand this statement at all.&nbsp;&nbsp; So if you want to push a nice MS coin into an album it&#039;s better to push it in with a bare finger than use a glove?&nbsp; &nbsp; And of course you will say, don&#039;t use albums.&nbsp; But people do and like to.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would not believe that using a glove to gently push a metal object in something would ever impair the surface to the point of damaging it or affecting the grade.&nbsp; If it was done repeatedly, possibly.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do know you can leave a nice big fingerprint on them that will show up years down the road though because I have seen them.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; As for the OP and the grading debate, there certainly has been a lot of stuff graded that probably shouldn&#039;t have been graded.&nbsp; On the other hand, there&#039;s a lot of stuff that should be graded.&nbsp;&nbsp; As has been covered here extensively, there is a worsening problem with counterfeits.&nbsp; And it&#039;s only getting worse.&nbsp; The Chinese are copying even the common stuff now that I would bet would fool many experienced collectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; Simply because they would never expect a $10 coin to be a fake.&nbsp; The copys are good enough to fool people if mixed in a roll or a bag.&nbsp; Or if you&#039;re just not paying that good of attention.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Next, you have to give the graders some credit.&nbsp;&nbsp; They may be younger. (Or they may not be.&nbsp; People are just throwing around guesses here.)&nbsp; Who are you going to go with for grade on an important coin?&nbsp; &nbsp; The graders (since at least two and sometimes 3 graders review for slabbing) who gets paid to grade coins all day, every day, year after year?&nbsp;&nbsp; Or an experienced collector who may be asked to seriously grade a coin once a month based on their own opinion?&nbsp; (If that.)&nbsp; Which probably won&#039;t agree with the next &quot;experienced&quot; collector&#039;s opinion.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Who certainly won&#039;t agree with the dealer selling the coin, who of course, has been doing it for 30 years.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; To me the TPG&#039;s cut out A LOT of BS.&nbsp; My opinion.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure many others think they add to it.&nbsp; But it&#039;s the nature of this hobby.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how you can escape it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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