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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3505503, member: 112"]Not at all, and what's more you know I'm not. </p><p><br /></p><p>The definition of a mint state coin is and always has been a coin that has no wear - period. So to say that this coin has wear, but it's still MS because that wear may have been, might have been, could have been caused by X - and certify it as such - it's the most ludicrous idea I ever heard of !</p><p><br /></p><p>It's like saying that mule over there is actually a horse because it was raised on such and such a ranch, and that ranch only raises horses - so that mule has to be a horse and we'll certify that it is ! But anybody who looks at it, can plainly see that it is a mule.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one and only reason that the TPGs get away with doing it is because people are willing to accept their certifications as having some kind of real meaning - when they really have no meaning at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>And toning, well at least with toning they don't even try to get people to believe that they can tell AT from NT. They tell you flat out - this is our best guess, but that's all it is, a guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>But they don't do that with grading, they don't do that at all. They say flat out, it IS a horse - when anybody with any sense at all would know it is a mule ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3505503, member: 112"]Not at all, and what's more you know I'm not. The definition of a mint state coin is and always has been a coin that has no wear - period. So to say that this coin has wear, but it's still MS because that wear may have been, might have been, could have been caused by X - and certify it as such - it's the most ludicrous idea I ever heard of ! It's like saying that mule over there is actually a horse because it was raised on such and such a ranch, and that ranch only raises horses - so that mule has to be a horse and we'll certify that it is ! But anybody who looks at it, can plainly see that it is a mule. The one and only reason that the TPGs get away with doing it is because people are willing to accept their certifications as having some kind of real meaning - when they really have no meaning at all. And toning, well at least with toning they don't even try to get people to believe that they can tell AT from NT. They tell you flat out - this is our best guess, but that's all it is, a guess. But they don't do that with grading, they don't do that at all. They say flat out, it IS a horse - when anybody with any sense at all would know it is a mule ![/QUOTE]
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