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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 13494, member: 112&quot;]In a nutshell - no. There are several reasons for this, but one of the foremost among them is time. Now that may not make sense to most, but once you understand the market grading system it does become easier to understand it.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/news_archive/grade.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/news_archive/grade.html" rel="nofollow">Market Grading</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>You see - the answer is dependent not only on the grade assigned - but <b>when</b> it was assigned. For grading standards have changed many times over the years and they will continue to change in the future. This is the nature of market grading. So before you can make a fair comparison between the grades assigned to a given coin or group of coins - you would first have to have them all graded in the same time period. Even then, the grades would be the same on some coins and perhaps 2 points different on others. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some grading companies grade coins of different series differently because they use different standards. And before you can begin to judge which company would be considered the most accurate you must know what those standards are for each grading company and for each series of coin they grade.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have said in the past that true gems can be found in the slabs of all of the top 4 grading companies. This is very true. But by the same token I can also say that you can find highly overgraded and undergraded coins in all of them as well. So there is no hard and fast answer for the answer is dependent upon too many variables. But as a general ( stress general ) rule of thumb, and this is my personal opinion, NGC is far and away the most consistent of all the grading companies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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