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Message:: [QUOTE="Kevin Mader, post: 8206566, member: 106826"]It is interesting how grading works.  I've felt reasonably comfortable estimating a grade, but then I'll visit a site like Heritage Auctions and see slabbed specimens grading higher or lower than where I landed.  It's imprecise art, but a refined one perhaps.  To what degree??  Hard to pinpoint for me.  But [USER=24314]@Insider[/USER] 's approach, I think, gets an individual to a decision point, and when the decision is in question, posting here in CT to have other's grade it is a very reasonable alternative, especially with the ensuing discussions.  When you look at the Poll data, things emerge...at least for me.  Contrasting that to what folks are saying, it helps to refine one's artistic abilities.  I'll further add that here at least a person can see the discussion, debate a point, or ask a question.  This is not anything a submitter can reasonably do with a TPG: send and wait...no debate.[/QUOTE]