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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2516049, member: 112"]I think this is the key to the whole discussion, though I would have worded it differently. I would have said - the TPGs are not always right, sometimes they are just flat out wrong. And a lot more often, and about more things, than people think. Over the years the general attitude has always been that if the TPG says so, then it must be so. It's like the TPGs are the final arbitrator, the final authority. If they say the grade is this, then that's what the grade is. If they say the attribution is this, then that's what it is. If they say a coin is a business strike, a Proof, a Specimen, a presentation piece - then that's what it is. If they say it is genuine, then it is genuine - to most people anyway. And God help anybody who says differently ! But you can count example after example after example where they are just plain wrong in their determination- about all of those things I mentioned above. And a lot of the time they even contradict themselves, changing their determinations. But still, the general attitude remains - if the TPG says so, then it is so. That's the problem, right there, because there are just too many times, way too many times - when it is not so. People need to realize that, understand that, and believe that.[/QUOTE]