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Have you tightened your grading standards in the past year?
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As long as my coins are fully struck to begin with, I have seen no problems with the grading standards, I have only got better at it, that's all.
Leo
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<< <i>Not my grading standards, but my standards for originality. A few weeks ago, I had some spare time and spent over an hour at the bank vault looking at my coins. There were a handful of coins that did not meet my current increasingly strict originality and overall appearance standards, and I am removing them from two near-complete sets. Some of my coins may be over-graded by one grade (while some are probably undergraded by as much), but the overall originality appearance is quite nice, and this does not bother me. >>
Eye Appeal, huh ? The DLRC "Star System" has been put to work.
Ken
<< <i>Not my grading standards, but my standards for originality. A few weeks ago, I had some spare time and spent over an hour at the bank vault looking at my coins. There were a handful of coins that did not meet my current increasingly strict originality and overall appearance standards, and I am removing them from two near-complete sets. Some of my coins may be over-graded by one grade (while some are probably undergraded by as much), but the overall originality appearance is quite nice, and this does not bother me. >>
Very interesting post. I need to spend some time with my collection and review it from an originality standpoint. I tend to be pretty picky with purchases, but a fresh look at the whole collection at one time is probably a good thing. I know of one coin that I might be looking to dump at Baltimore. As for grading standards, mine have not changed, but I think that the TPGs, especially NGC, are pretty loose with Southern gold (or stated more correctly, looser than PCGS with Southern gold).
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When I joined PCGS I knew I could grade better than the graders.
Now I look at the coins and compare them to KNOWN examples in MS67,68,69 and PF69/70 before submitting them for encapsulation. Something got tightened... and they must have been my standards cuz PCGS's didn't seem to get lowered
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<< <i>no. No need to. The coins haven't changed in the past year. >>
I have tightened my own grading standards in the past year, largely as the result of:
1. Discussions on this forum regarding originality.
2. The sale of a friend's large cent collection on eBay. (I handled the sale for him.)
I advised him to send the coins to ANACS for slabbing because I thought a good number would bodybag if sent to PCGS or NGC. I was stunned by the large percentage of the coins that ended up with "details" grades, including many that I thought were perfectly good when I first viewed them. I had the chance to examine the coins very carefully and, in the end, agreed with ANACS in virtually every case. (The coins were graded in September, 2006)
Even though I have been collecting for a long time I found that I needed to look more closely at all the coins I was buying/considering.
I'll bet many of you need to be looking more closely, too.