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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2298993, member: 112&quot;]This is a pertinent question, and the answer is quite simple, everybody involved in numismatics did. Market grading, as it was designed, was the next step in the evolution of grading. That system, for the first time in history, allowed us to be able to accurately describe the condition of a coin. That was it&#039;s sole purpose, and it did it very, very well. </p><p><br /></p><p>To understand it all you have to do is know what existed before that. And what existed before that was a grading system that did not allow us to accurately describe the condition of a coin. Prior to market grading all there was was technical grading, and you&#039;d be hard pressed to find anybody in numismatics who agreed that technical grading did the job. The giants in numismatics, as well as the rank and file, agreed that technical grading just wasn&#039;t good enough, just didn&#039;t do the job, could not do it. And so the numismatic community as a whole got together, sat down and worked it out over a long period of time. It took years to develop the market grading system, many years. It was not something that was done by a select group of people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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