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Message:: [QUOTE="BUncirculated, post: 1539216, member: 29581"]However, the point I'm trying to make with you is it can't be one standard for one series and everything else  follows another standard. As I've stated on this forum numerous times, the TPGs have to accept a universal set of grading standards and apply those standards regardless of who, or how large of a submission is made. Wear is wear, regardless of the source, and should be judged accordingly. Yes I do know that was from 1995, June 12th to be exact. I also know that the Official ANA Grading Standards for U.S. Coins was published in 1978, but those standards have been around longer than that, and certainly longer than the TPGs. You state, that roll friction is real and must be addressed. I'll go you one better. I'll say it should be seriously addressed when the TPGs can, with 100% accuracy and degree of certainty, determine a coins high point wear is that of roll friction, as opposed to contact friction from the coin being in one's pocket. Until they can do that, it will never be addressed. I also remind you of my admission that I do not look at gold coinage regularly, in fact not at all, and therefore am not knowledgeable about the series. But even gold coins should be judged according to the same standards as silver, or clads.[/QUOTE]