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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2682615, member: 24314&quot;]<b><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">This statement is absolutely false</span></b>!&nbsp; Unfortunately, over the last forty years all the newbies have twisted/altered what technical grading actually was and what it was used for.</p><p><br /></p><p>What ANACS called/taught/used as &quot;technical grading&quot; was a <b>bastardized version</b> cooked up by the new boys on the block in Colorado who had no clue of the actual system of precise technical grading used at ANACS (only while in DC) for internal record keeping and then by INSAB, the first grading service.</p><p><br /></p><p>A technically perfect, flatly struck 1884-O Morgan, with blazing original luster and no marks may get into a slab today as MS-64 +* w/gold bean; yet its technical grade could be MS-70, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">Flat Strike.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">True technical grading was developed to describe the condition of preservation of the coin based on what it looked like when it was struck.&nbsp; It was very strict so the grade would not change (one day AU [rub] the next week MS). With true technical grading, color, strike, or any other description was added.&nbsp; <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 179)">Technical grading did not have anything to do with a coin&#039;s commercial value or eye-appeal!</span>&nbsp; In one grading seminar, when true technical grading was explained, the class was shown a Washington quarter technically graded as Proof-65, cut in half! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Anyway, true, original, technical grading is dead.&nbsp; It&#039;s only used by some instructors in basic grading seminars to get students up to speed.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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