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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 656684, member: 4920&quot;]That&#039;s the obvious assumption, but let&#039;s give it a little trouble, think on it a little bit. Can you nail down those grading standards? When ANA says strike is irrelevant to the grade, do you know that the TPGs are ignoring that when they grade? What about good toning? How much does a TPG bump a grade for that? Do you know? Does CAC know? If &quot;good for the grade&quot; means &quot;good for the TPG grade,&quot; the TPGs are presumably basing their grades on their experience, which is right there, presumably, in the forefront of their minds, in their database of market comparables. I don&#039;t have that database to draw from. When I see a &quot;Guess the Grade&quot; question, and am unfamiliar with that date and mint mark, I go right to Heritage, and check out those market comparables. But, that&#039;s a drop in the bucket. OTOH, are these rather CAC grading standards? Is a stickered-coin &quot;good for the grade&quot; because it passes CAC&#039;s grading standards? And, if so, what are those standards? Are they &quot;by-the-book,&quot; ANA standards? I doubt they&#039;re simply technical standards, I threw that into the question just for the sake of completeness. Why is any of this relevant to anything? I&#039;d think it&#039;s relevant to tell us what we&#039;re getting when we pay for their service. Are we just getting a $10 sticker, good enough, what the hell? Then, just go ahead and represent to the buyer, it means anything we want? Another issue, if CAC is just applying TPG standards, is that like they&#039;re sitting in the grading room, but are looking through plastic? How accurate is that when the TPG graders have the coins in-hand and are tilting them under the light? Bottom-line, what does that CAC sticker, that &quot;plastic grade,&quot; mean? I&#039;m just wondering, really, if anybody knows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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