TPG Modern Grading Standards?

yspsales

Hopefully not violating TOS, but something got me thinking.

Standards, market acceptability. Accurate.... tougher? Choose your term.

Based on the ANA grading class with NGC coins, my eye seems generally trained to tougher PCGS standards in the classics.

Can't say I recall with Franklin's, but I am best with Kennedy and Quarters.

Know my Lincoln cent game needs help.

Just curious as to opinions.

I rarely look at the other TPG's coins outside of variety searching.

coinbuf

There are no standards, if there were standards then the TPG's would have to be accountable. As it is they use terms like "grading is an art" and "market acceptable" to justify how anything is graded. And regardless of what you think PCGS hasn't been "tougher" than any other TPG for years. PCGS has one of the most junior grading staffs and are much more likely to give bonus points for color than any TPG in the history of TPG's.

TomB

Each TPG grades according how they best determine to grade. They do not adhere to a single standard throughout the industry. The TPG internal standards can largely overlap, or tend to differ at the margins, but they are proprietary and are not beholden to a central standard.