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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 362352, member: 4626&quot;]Corruption no.&nbsp; In order to be corrupt there has to be a &quot;correct&quot; grade that they&#039;re intentionally not giving it.&nbsp; Since a grading opinion is purely subjective, who&#039;s to say the grade they give is too high?&nbsp; That&#039;s just a difference of opinion between you and the grader, not a sign of corruption.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, do I think that they use somewhat more forgiving standards on coins with an interesting provenence, or rare coins, or keys and semi-keys?&nbsp; Yes, of course they do, but so what?&nbsp; It&#039;s still just an opinion.&nbsp; Call it adjustment to allow for the market reality that they&#039;re more desirable (&quot;market-grading&quot; for short).</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not dishonest unless they honestly believe the coin doesn&#039;t deserve the grade they give it.&nbsp; Since a grade is just a matter of opinion anyway it would be hard to catch them at it... how do you prove they don&#039;t really believe what they say they think the grade is?&nbsp; Even if you can show that similar coins graded by them received a lower grade that only proves inconsistency of standards or varying opinions, not dishonesty necessarily.</p><p><br /></p><p>A grade is just an opinion, and all opinions, by definition, are purely subjective.&nbsp; I should add that to my sig line... in fact I just did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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