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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1342982, member: 112&quot;]Of course it has a lot to do with marketing, always did. But it has a lot more to do with knowledge - or rather, the lack of it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s where a lot of people get mixed up, or misled by their own thinking. The thing they don&#039;t realize is that the individual grader&#039;s knowledge, experience, and personal grading standards, have absolutely nothing to do with the grade assigned to the coin by any of the various grading companies. </p><p><br /></p><p>You see, the graders are not allowed to use their personal grading standards. Personally, (meaning based in his own grading standards), a grader at ICG may think that a coin should only grade as MS63. But ICG forces him to use <u>their</u> grading standards. And based on the ICG grading standards that coin is an MS65.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therein lies the problem. Every single grading company there is does the exact same thing, including NGC and PCGS. The graders working for them have to use the <b>company&#039;s grading standards</b> and no other. So the skill of the individual grader has nothing to do with it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Talk to each other ? As in conspire to fool all of us ? Good God, of course not. They hate each other. Anything they can do to steal business from one of the other guys - they are going to do it. Anything they can do to fool people into thinking that they are &quot;better&quot; than the other guys - they are going to do it. Anything that the collecting public wants as a whole - they are going to do it. And they&#039;ll fall all over themselves to be the first to do it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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