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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 692636, member: 4920&quot;]I figured not everybody would agree. IMHO, they&#039;re realtors, but appraising coins...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>EDIT</b>: I&#039;ve got a few more minutes before I have to go, so I think I&#039;ll just elaborate, here, just a little. It&#039;s not rocket science, IMHO. The major TPGs just have everybody groomed into believing it is. Credit their marketing. But when you get into the MS grades, grading is just a matter of knowing the market. You showed us, yourself, in another thread, you&#039;re at least cognizant of the difference between the way the major TPGs grade, and the way ANA says to grade...that being, grades and grading standards are influenced and determined by the market, and are everything but immutable, as the major TPGs would otherwise have us believe. ANA is talking MS coins, principally, wherein the only relevant grading considerations are balancing the contact marks as against the luster, balancing all that as against the toning (and, a few other such vague criteria, such as where the contact marks may appear on the coin...as well as, at least the way some have been known to be doing it, the strike, as well as the pedigree), then rating all that as against what the market is telling us, through the auctions, principally, are &quot;eye appealing,&quot; by present-day standards. A thirteen-year-old can learn to do that, provided he or she had nothing better to do than look at coins all day long, and didn&#039;t have a real job, like at McDonald&#039;s, to interfere with that. Well, maybe I did exaggerate, there, just a little. Make that, a real job, like mowing lawns, or shoveling snow. I believe McDonald&#039;s requires their employees to be at least sixteen, to handle that job. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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