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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 615, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Contradictions do not exist.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Reid Goldsborough: </p><p>&quot;I&#039;m glad you passed, Michael. I was really worried there for a while. And with high honors! Mom must be proud.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>My mother is dead.&nbsp; Leave her out of this unless you want to meet some of my cousins from the East Coast.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cited my source of expertise.&nbsp; Your denigration of it -- which you will next call &quot;humor&quot; -- is yet another example of what you also call &quot;girlish hairpulling&quot; in a discussion.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am an ANA-certified expert grader.&nbsp; I have said on RCC that my lack of practice on a daily basis is something I am aware of.&nbsp; Nonetheless, I understand the theory.&nbsp; I know that you contradict yourself.&nbsp; In your &quot;Periodic Post&quot; you do, indeed, give the correct explanation of what &quot;market grading is.&quot;&nbsp; Your re-definition here is wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, I asked you to cite a source.&nbsp; You could not.&nbsp; You referred only to an anonymous collective of &quot;coin dealers.&quot;&nbsp; You cited an unspecified population of &quot;sliders.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I agreed up front that egregious examples exist.&nbsp; I deny that they are &quot;market grading.&quot;&nbsp; They are failures in the system, not the standards of achievement.&nbsp; The Adams 1804 Dollar Class III might be the classic case in point.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless, &quot;market grading&quot; is not the resubmission of a coin multiple times to purchase the grade you want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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