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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2087712, member: 112&quot;]That is indeed the problem. Many refuse to believe that the TPG grading standards have changed at all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some say that there was a change, a loosening of standards during or immediately after the first year of the TPGs existence. That would translate into sometime in 1987. But from 1987 until 1997 or early 1998 the TPG grading standards remained the same. This covers the period of what is known as the &quot;old green holders&quot;. The OGHs ended at that time. And it is accepted, market wide, that their was loosening of TPG grading standards when the OGHs ended. This is acknowledged by the fact that everybody accepted that the coins in the OGHs were or would be automatically upgraded if re-submitted. And of course it also includes the coins found in the early NGC slabs. But the strange thing is, even though the entire coin market accepts this as fact, they still refuse to acknowledge or openly say that the TPGs &quot;loosened&quot; their grading standards at this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>After that, much of the market refuses to acknowledge that was any change in TPG grading standards at all. Yet other knowledgeable people claim the opposite, that there has indeed been a continuing loosening of grading standards. That there is still an ongoing loosening of grading standards. This idea is reinforced by the advent and huge success of CAC since 2007. But still much of the market refuses to acknowledge this.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of that said, there has never been a period since the advent of the TPGs where their grading standards have tightened. Not ever. Though some will claim otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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