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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jason Hoffpauir, post: 3025423, member: 67527&quot;]I don&#039;t claim to be an expert, which I am not but my personal feelings is that the difference is a grader&#039;s pride.&nbsp; Even they know a coin might be an AU-50 they will grade it a higher or even a lower grade.&nbsp; NO ONE, and I mean no one tells him or her what to grade a coin.&nbsp; He or she is the expert; you don&#039;t like it go to someone else. This is their mentality. If they would grade a coin according to it&#039;s merits then we would all have less problems grading the &quot;coin&quot; and not the TPG&#039;s.&nbsp; The main reason I say this is because an top three TPG company representative (grader) that was at a Hawaii coin show back in 2002-2005 told me this.&nbsp; The TPG&#039;s don&#039;t like each other very much and will purposely graded a coin harder (than it actually is) or lower to maintain a certain &quot;status&quot; in the industry.&nbsp; I know some may not agree with me and that is OK but after a few years in this industry I can see where there is merits to this claim.&nbsp; This is just my personal opinion.&nbsp; Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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