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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2757921, member: 15309&quot;]When did I ever say that?&nbsp; I have always contended that you should look for opportunities to buy where the assigned grade overlaps with your own grading standards.&nbsp; The only time that becomes problematic is when one&#039;s grading standards (eg your standards) are so punitive that overlap never exists.&nbsp; I have told you for years that even if you wanted to collect, you couldn&#039;t, because 99.9% of all TPG graded coins are overgraded in your eyes and nobody is going to sell you the coins at the price of the grade (or two, or three) below the assigned grade.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wow, that is rich.&nbsp; One of my chief complaints in that thread was that we didn&#039;t see the coin in hand and were grading it based off oversized photos that magnified what are very minor hits and that both NGC and CAC had seen the coin in hand and agreed that the coin was an MS67.&nbsp; You were the one who abandoned your own philosophy of not grading from photos by pointing out that you can see the hits so they are not in dispute.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am simply admitting that it is almost impossible to grade a proof coin from a photograph and that without seeing the coin in hand, the grade could be accurate.&nbsp; That does not mean I agree with the grade.&nbsp; I am still highly skeptical that all of the toning is deep purple as opposed to terminal, that the mirrors are 67 quality, and that the CAMEO effect is fully evident.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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