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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 668091, member: 112"]And that is the ONLY published grading guide there is for any of the TPG's. But there is a problem with it in my opinion. For example, they do not use a separate standard for the various grades. Instead they lump them together and make you guess as to what any particular coin may or may not grade. They list their standards like this - VF20/35. And then there is one written standard for that group. There is no distiction or standard for VF20, VF25, VF30 & VF35. They do the same thing with the MS grades, but they do tell you that 60, 61 & 62 will have more marks than higher grades. But 64 and up are all lumped together with the same standard. Again, you have to guess as to what the proper grade would be for any given coin. Of course there is one big advanatge, for the TPG,  of using this method - it makes it downright hard for you to say that they have over or under-graded a coin because you have no written standards specifically for each grade to compare them to. Now this is why I think the ANA standards are so important. They provide specific written standards for far more individual grades. For example they list separate standards for VF20 & VF30; XF40 & XF45, AU50, AU55, AU58 and in the MS grades they list 60, 63,65,67 & 70. And for popular coins like Morgans they list standards for all the MS grades.[/QUOTE]