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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1293419, member: 2972&quot;]I don&#039;t care if you&#039;re Mark Feld (i.e. a former grader, whom I suspect will agree with me), much less a former programmer who is detail oriented, owns a loupe and has studied these coins in detail.&nbsp; Join the club.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line: I don&#039;t believe you have the ability to distinguish between 69 and 70 TPG-graded coins with consistency if the grades are hidden, nor can you predict with consistency how the TPGs will grade raw coins at this level.&nbsp; Anyone can do it with coins they know (i.e. in their collection), nobody I&#039;ve met in my years of collecting can do it blind.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s not a comment on your ability to grade so much as it is the inconsistency in these grades by TPGs.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, no level of detail focus or comparative analysis will allow you to predict the unpredictable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Said in yet another way, coin grading is subjective, by definition, and subjectivity is inherently unpredictable.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can accurately guess grades at the 69/70 level, you will be the first person in this hobby I&#039;ve met capable of such a feat, and I will happily eat crow.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Respectfully...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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