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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 3553826, member: 15309&quot;]</p><p><span style="color: #000000">It absolutely is your problem.&nbsp; You are a representative of that company.&nbsp; If you acquiesce to a grade that you don&#039;t agree with and didn&#039;t assign simply because they pay you, that my friend is tantamount to selling out.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, I&#039;m equating the practice of excusing hyperbole in the form of absolutes.&nbsp; You did it with Doug&#039;s comments, and I did it with the passage contained in the PCGS book.&nbsp; Your previous comments cast the authors of that book into a very bad light, unless you meant 100% uninformed crap in a good way.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure Doug will be delighted to hear that he is worse than 100% uninformed crap.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">See the part highlighted in </span><span style="color: #ff0000">red</span><span style="color: #000000"> above?&nbsp; I&#039;m taking that as the win and moving on.&nbsp; My larger point was that if roll/stacking friction is treated as wear, then virtually every Saint in existence would be graded AU.&nbsp; I know that you don&#039;t personally agree with that, and you have said so several times in this thread.&nbsp; But remember, my larger point wasn&#039;t directed at you, it was directed at the many people engaged in this thread who believe that &quot;wear is wear&quot; and that coins with roll friction should be graded AU.&nbsp; <i>So, we both agree that most Saints have roll/stacking friction, and those coins should be graded as mint state coins.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">I&#039;m not even gonna touch the rest of what you wrote there.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t matter that you graded the coin differently, your aren&#039;t a subcontractor, you are an employee.&nbsp; If your grading principles dictate that the coins are AU, but you are fine with them changing your grade because they are paying you, you are a sell out.&nbsp; That is literally the definition of a sell out.&nbsp; It begs the question though.&nbsp; If they just ignore your assigned grade and simply go with the grade assigned by the finalizer, why don&#039;t they just have him grade the coins?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I made a very logical argument which deserves an answer better than, &quot;don&#039;t be naive!&quot;&nbsp; There are only two scenarios.&nbsp; First is that the TPGs don&#039;t change their grading standards.&nbsp; The second is that there is a criminal conspiracy and they are engaged in an ongoing fraud that effects the entire coin collecting community.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am 47 years old.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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