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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1090922, member: 112"]Paul my point is this, all anybody, including the TPGs, can do is guess if a coin is AT or NT. Even 10 years ago I have seen cases where coins were shipped directly to the TPG in original, sealed mint packaging. And yet the coin/coins were bagged for being AT. Why ? Because they guess. All they can do is guess. That's all you can do, all I can do, all anybody can do is guess if the coin is AT or NT. And when you guess sometimes you're right and sometimes you're wrong. That's really all there is to it. This market acceptability standard you talk about only exist in each individual's head. There is no written or published standard for anybody to go by. Each and every person there is has this idea of a standard in their own head. And if any coin does not meet their individual criteria of that standard then that person claims the coin is AT. That is precisely why if any given coin is examined by a group of people, including the graders, you get varying opinions of if the coin is AT or NT. And that is also why the very same coin is bagged one time and slabbed the next time. There is no other reasonable explanation. And to pretend there is, is rediculous.[/QUOTE]