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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1930965, member: 16729&quot;]Thanks for your response, and I kind of suspected that&#039;s how it was done.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, it seems that, in a way, they kind of<b> don&#039;t</b> use the same grading criteria as US coins:&nbsp; Perhaps the TPGs assigning grades to world coins at the Mint State-level isn&#039;t too problematic for me, but the Grading of a Lincoln wheat cent in circulated condition requires knowing what wear-patterns happen on <b>specific parts of that particular coin, and to what extent</b>, for example.&nbsp;&nbsp; With circulated World Coins, the TPGs are grading coins that they don&#039;t have a &quot;common narrative&quot; on, like there has been for US coins.&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking of the evolution of grading since Dr. William H. Sheldon introduced his 70-point scale in 1949, if not before.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, I guess the TPGs just determine a coin&#039;s high points, and roughly where the worst place would be for a mark or a scratch?&nbsp; &nbsp; Don&#039;t the graders have conversations among themselves about this, just for consistency sake?&nbsp; I have that Beth Deisher book, <u>Making the Grade,</u> and I&#039;m thinking of the color-coding that she uses there.&nbsp; Or maybe there are just too many world coins out there!&nbsp; Perhaps the graders have been doing this work so long that they have created among themselves a level of &quot;art&quot; of grading that approaches Buddahood that doesn&#039;t need much discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>But at the same time, I am actually impressed with the TPGs graders consistency with the uncirculated coins that I collect, esp. S. Korea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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