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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 421619, member: 2972&quot;]Quite candidly, I don&#039;t really have a personal opinion, and I don&#039;t get caught up in written standards because they are wrought with interprative subjectivity (much like grading itself).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To me at least, the grade (and grading standard) is immaterial.&nbsp; The only things that matters to me are the coin and the price.&nbsp; The grade, and the grading standard, while perhaps a means to an end, is really just noise.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I find rather telling, however, is that no matter which grading standard you use -- ANA, EAC, or TPG -- the resulting price is remarkably similar.&nbsp; A coin graded XF 40 by ANA standards, VF 35 by EAC, and AU 55 by TPGs are all, amazingly, priced about the same.&nbsp; That is not a coincidence, and in large part why I don&#039;t get caught up too much in grading standards.&nbsp; I just try and understand them comparatively as the first step in the valuation process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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