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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 836472, member: 6036"]Rather than say "more conservative", I prefer to think of it as a different methodology. It's a different way of thinking. It's necessary, since TPGs struggle with Early American Copper - not because of any fault of the TPGs, mind you. It's because so much early copper is very valuable in spite of problems which would clearly bodybag a modern coin. Since 99% of early copper has problems of one sort or another, does it really make sense to disqualify 99% of the coins from slabbing ? ...or is it better to go ahead and slab the ones with lesser problems, and bag others ? The TPGs chose the latter. Which, of course, begs the question "How bad is too bad to slab ? Where do you draw the line ?" And that, my dear friends, is the 64 Billion Dollar question ! heh heh heh :goof:[/QUOTE]