stop tip toeing around the question !

barberlover

The question isn't what you want the grading standards of p.c.g.s. to be. I think most of us would say {just like the original P.c.g.s. adds said we will grade the same today as years from now, {i can't qoute the exact words of those 17 year old full page coin world adds], but anyone that remembers them knows what i'm referring to.

The real question is has p.c.g.s. grading standards changed and if it has are they loser or tighter.

So heres the question in plain terms; is p.c.g.s. grading loser, the same, or tighter than it used to be?

Russ

<< <i>is p.c.g.s. grading loser, the same, or tighter than it used to be? >>



All of the above.

Russ, NCNE

CLASSICS

hi, yes i remember that saying, i still have the original coinworld paper put away somewhere when david hall had full page adds before he started pcgs............what seems to be the problem, is graders come and go. they had a set of coins ...the grading standard set.....i find it hard to beleive someone there cant tell a ms65 from a ms63.........so they are tight, no they are lose.........i have a great idea. why not use the ..... standard grading set.......you are suppose to go by? or do they still have one? doesnt seem they do.......this business of they were lose back then and now they are tight is for the birds......yes, stop tip toeing around.........

Fairlaneman

Bottom line for the series I collect is that some of yesterdays 65 coins are now finding thier way into 66 and 67 slabs. There is just no two ways about this. Its happened and is a little bit dis-hearting. Still some very nice 65 coins can be had for very little money and they are just as nice or better than thier 66 and 67 counterparts that are showing up now.

Possibly the advent of the Registries has caused this and if this is so a great dis-service to collectors has been done. Hopefully I am wrong on the previous statement but it sure seems that the need for higher graded coins in the Registries might have added to the desire to churn out some higher grade examples at the expense of what the coin really should be graded at. Mostly this happens on the lower priced issues. I am not saying that all of the 66 and 67 coins are dogs but there certainly are quite a few of them that do not warrant the grade they have received.

As always this is just my opinion and the standards are looser within the series collected.

Ken