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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2341421, member: 112&quot;]That&#039;s just not true. The 1st and 2nd edition of the ANA standards were based on the technical grading system, so yes those standards are very different. It is with the 3rd edition of the ANA standards published in 1987 that everything changed. That is when the ANA developed and adopted the market grading system, an entirely different grading system than what they had before. And for what it&#039;s worth, it was in the 3rd edition in 1987 that every MS65 became an MS63 literally overnight. In other words the standards got stricter, not looser.</p><p><br /></p><p>From 1987 until 2005 when the 6th edition was published the standards in the ANA books remained exactly the same as they were in the 3rd. But in the 6th edition there were 2, and only 2 minor changes. One was the standard for a Lincoln cent in F12, the other for Buffalo nickel in F12, and only those 2 specific grades. All other standards for all other grades for those 2 coins remained exactly the same as they were in 1987. All other grades for all other coins in the 2005 book remained exactly the same as they were in 1987.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I don&#039;t have the 7th edition so I can&#039;t compare each and every grade for every coin in the entire book. But I have talked to friends who do have the 7th edition and asked them to compare a few of the standards at random to what is in the 6th edition. There were no changes, they were exactly the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>So unless you wish to claim that changing the standards for 2 coins in F12, and only those 2 coins in F12, constitutes codifying gradefaltion, then no the ANA books do not codify gradeflation. For there have been no changes in the ANA standards, other than those 2, in 29 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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