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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 3509386, member: 24314"]No time to read everything and comment but for now:</p><p><br /></p><p>Lehigh96, posted: "You can parrot Doug’s line that the TPGs have changed their grading standards all you want. Here is what I’m telling you. <b>In my chosen series, Jefferson Nickels, I see no discernible change in standards over the last 25 years.</b> I routinely buy Jefferson Nickels in old slabs and they look identical to the coins graded in the last few years. In all my years of buying and selling Jeff’s, I’ve had only one coin that upgraded two grades."</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">No offense but Jefferson nickels are a crap series <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> (little overall interest in the big world) that percolate along over the years. That's why the grading has not changed! When we ignore the hole-fillers, the only coins of interest are FS, extremely high grades, lowballs, and the varieties. Knowledgeable collectors such as yourself should be thankful you are collecting a coin in the shadows of numismatics. Of course, this is just MHO.</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"><i><b>I like this</b></i>: <i><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">BUT</span></i></span></p><p><br /></p><p>"Furthermore, the topic of this thread isn’t about overall grading standards, it is about the implementation of a market grading exception, the allowance of high point friction for coins with Cabinet/Roll friction, to right a wrong in the grading system. I have always contended that it is these type of advancements in market grading along with the inherent subjectivity in grading that is responsible for gradeflation, not a deliberate loosening in overall grading standards. I stand by that.["</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">Actually, gradeflation has loosened the standards all down the circulated grade too. Just compare the 7th Edition of the ANA Grading Guide to early editions.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: rgb(89, 0, 179)">I cannot wait to pick apart the PCGS quotes. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 3509386, member: 24314"]No time to read everything and comment but for now: Lehigh96, posted: "You can parrot Doug’s line that the TPGs have changed their grading standards all you want. Here is what I’m telling you. [B]In my chosen series, Jefferson Nickels, I see no discernible change in standards over the last 25 years.[/B] I routinely buy Jefferson Nickels in old slabs and they look identical to the coins graded in the last few years. In all my years of buying and selling Jeff’s, I’ve had only one coin that upgraded two grades." [I][COLOR=rgb(89, 0, 179)]No offense but Jefferson nickels are a crap series :jawdrop: (little overall interest in the big world) that percolate along over the years. That's why the grading has not changed! When we ignore the hole-fillers, the only coins of interest are FS, extremely high grades, lowballs, and the varieties. Knowledgeable collectors such as yourself should be thankful you are collecting a coin in the shadows of numismatics. Of course, this is just MHO.[/COLOR][/I] [COLOR=rgb(89, 0, 179)][I][B]I like this[/B][/I]: [I][COLOR=rgb(179, 0, 0)]BUT[/COLOR][/I][/COLOR] "Furthermore, the topic of this thread isn’t about overall grading standards, it is about the implementation of a market grading exception, the allowance of high point friction for coins with Cabinet/Roll friction, to right a wrong in the grading system. I have always contended that it is these type of advancements in market grading along with the inherent subjectivity in grading that is responsible for gradeflation, not a deliberate loosening in overall grading standards. I stand by that.[" [I][COLOR=rgb(89, 0, 179)]Actually, gradeflation has loosened the standards all down the circulated grade too. Just compare the 7th Edition of the ANA Grading Guide to early editions. I cannot wait to pick apart the PCGS quotes. :D[/COLOR][/I][/QUOTE]
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