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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2087933, member: 73489&quot;]But if they strictly go for revenue/$$$ maximization, they risk ruining their business in the long run as their business model -- grading coins -- becomes worthless.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">Do you think that as the number of quality coins for certain types -- i.e., 1907 EHR Saint-Gaudens (only 1 PR-69) -- did NOT increase over recent decades, the graders became a bit more &#039;forgiving&#039; realizing that while a 100-year old coin could not get an MS-70, 2 or 3 nicks visible under a 5x lens doesn&#039;t deserve to knock it down to an MS-68 or even MS-67 ?</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I know I&#039;m entering the subjective and relative here, but it&#039;s got to be at least on a grader&#039;s SUBCONSCIOUS.&nbsp; And maybe that&#039;s the problem -- these guys haven&#039;t &#039;loosened&#039; standards so much or sold out the Sheldon Scale for $$$....what&#039;s happened is they&#039;ve sort of blended technical and market grading.&nbsp; And maybe not deliberately.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus, they realize for some coins there are no secret hoards coming across the Atlantic or up from South America that will give us dozens or hundreds of more rare coins where now there might be only 1-20 (i.e., super-rate Morgans or Saint-Gaudens).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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