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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 468441, member: 112&quot;]Just about anyone who reads most of the coin forums will know this - every couple of months, sometimes even every month, you will see reports that the TPG&#039;s are either tightening or loosening their standards. Now if this were really the case the evidence would be easy to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, what is it exactly that these people base these reports on ? Often, it will based on but a single coin and a single report made by a person who happens to disagree with the grade assigned to their coin. Other times it may even be a few different people making such reports. </p><p><br /></p><p>But consider this, NGC slabs approx 150,000 coins per month; PCGS 100,000 per month. So out of a quarter of a million coins slabbed every month, how many would one have to see and judge to be able to determine a change in the grading standards used by the TPG&#039;s ? Would 10% be enough, 20% ? Even at such low numbers for a valid sample we are talking about 25,000 to 50,000 coins. Do the math, that would mean that these people making such claims would have to see 1,000 to 2,000 coins per day. And of course they would also have to have the ability to be able to judge whether or not the TPG&#039;s had changed their standards. And to have that ability each of these people would necessarily also have to be familiar enough with the grading standards of each of the two TPG&#039;s to even recognize that the standards had changed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now how many such people with this skill do you think there are out there ? And of those with the skill how many of them do you think there are who see 1,000 to 2,000 of the newly slabbed coins per day ? I think you should get the picture by now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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