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Toughest Grading Standard?

BigDipperBigDipper Posts: 54 ✭✭
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Do todays PCGS slab (Blue Label - Barcode in Front) have the most stringent grading standards ever? Many of todays PCGS coins seem to be getting undergraded these days. I've always heard that the first generation slabs had the toughest standards, but i don't think so. Any opinions?
Go METS!!!

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  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭
    The toughest grading standards in the universe can be found right here on this forum!image
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    The line deciding point between borderline coins sitting on the next higher or lower grade change back & forth but basically the standards have remained the same. The first generation slabs were tough on Morgans & Walkers because they were the hot investment coins at the time but everything else in a small holder rattler IS NOT undergraded. Only some Walkers & Morgans were undergraded, mostly in the Mint State grades from 63-66.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • HuliganRSHuliganRS Posts: 345 ✭
    I'm with Dog on this one!

    Rusty.
    ">My PCGS Franklin Registry Set
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm with Pushkin on this one!

    peacockcoins

  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    Puskin has it right the critics are here, too. image
    Tony

    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    The bear sides with Pushkin. The grading on this Forum
    is tougher then a 6 month old bagel. Bearimage
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭
    Bear,

    I've got a six month old bagel sitting here in the back of one of my desk drawers, it was a Jalapino bagel, I think, kind of difficult to tell now - but it is awfully darn tough. And, it isn't AT, its all natural green, brown, blue and black toning. One heck of a patina! I think it did shrink a little? image
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    Hey Bear:

    Can your teeth handle 6 month old bagels? image

    Frank
  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭

    Bear and all: Here it is - 6 month old, naturally toned, really tough bagel. image

    image
  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    my standards are the toughest in the industry

    well for me i do not know about what company or generation slabs are loose or tight standards but show me a coin in a slab within my speciality and i will tell you what my grade is and if the COIN IS A GREAT COIN OR NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i am sure in all different slabs with many different generations of slabs there are undergraded solid and overgraded coins crappy coins average coins and even some great coins

    only buy great coins

    there are five types of coins

    crappy
    average
    good
    very good
    great

    only buy great coins

    sincerely michael

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