With the advent of details grading, have TPGs raised their standards for normal coin grading? Normally, if a coin were on the verge between gradeable and problem, they would grade it, but with details grading, I feel they now have an excuse to not grade it.
Details grading has been around the whole time - ANACS has always done it. Market pressure forced the other two to follow suit, as it forced them (at least to my observation) to distinctly tighten grading in the last few years. The advent (success) of CAC was the final straw.
Also a few years back, some real major-league coin doctors got exposed and cost the TPG's a solid bit of coin to make right. They've been gun-shy ever since.
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