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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 8207761, member: 105098&quot;]I agree to an extent, if there are rules and standards, all you can really do is strive to drill them in and have people know them and adhere to them, but inevitably some things will slip on through the cracks at some point.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean all the safety precautions, meetings, trainings, signs and markings, still doesn&#039;t stop workplace injuries completely, it&#039;s the same principle.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the point was, &quot;this is how it works ideally&quot; &quot;we body bagged everything that didn&#039;t adhere, people didn&#039;t like it, we went with details grade and slabbed, but we really shouldn&#039;t go to net grading and slabbing coins that are XF details as VG&nbsp; because of a gouged surface, because that would deter sight unseen trading of slabs&quot;.</p><p>Will some slabs be completely wrong label for the coin? Oh yeah. will they make mistakes or let something straight grade that shouldn&#039;t? Oh yeah. Have they straight graded as genuine, counterfeits? Oh yeah.</p><p>They aren&#039;t flawless, but they try hard to hold a standard, and that goes for all of the decent grading companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fairly certain the cuts around the rim on the OPs coin were the reason it got a no grade. Scratches and rim dings might get through the TPGs depending on severity and suspected cause of the damage. But it has a lot of problems working against it other than just those cuts.</p><p>And heck This particular half dime, submitted enough times to the top 4 TPGs, and one of them might even slab it at some point and it slip through the cracks and get past someone and into a slab.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I&#039;m not a fan of TPGs as a whole, but it is a business and provides a service. Even if &quot;PCGS is the most egregious at not following their own grading standards&quot;, they are still at the top of the list of TPGs, so they must be doing something right the 95+% of the time with the standards they have in the eyes of the collectors, dealers and hobby. I mean they aren&#039;t SEGS or PCI by a long shot.</p><p>But yeah, mistakes happen, problem coins will get through even them from time to time that shouldn&#039;t be slabbed, even counterfeits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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