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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 523929, member: 4920&quot;]If you were to do further research into our archives looking in particular for threads focusing on the distinctions between technical (condition) and market grading one of the things among others you&#039;re going to discover is that the ANA market grading scheme emerged at the same time the first TPG, PCGS, hung out its shingle. Now, whether you have a need to believe that&#039;s just coincidental, or whether you rather think it happened in a concerted effort to justify the resultant scheme, third-party grading, is immaterial, really. IMHO, at least, what&#039;s important to take from that is that grading finally reached the point at which condition and value had to somehow be better <i>synthesized</i>. Enter, market, as opposed to condition, grading; condition grading, now, being relegated to a simple subset of market grading. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d implore you to search for those threads and study them, as many, here, have participated in them, and, not without good reason. But, bottom line, IMHO, it&#039;s really quite impossible to give a short answer to your question, unrelated to that larger context. Nonetheless, if you have to have one, here, I&#039;ll try. We haven&#039;t &quot;gravitated&quot; toward anything. Rather, ANA cleared the way, a long time ago, for what these TPGs are doing (and, IMHO, doing <i>much </i>better, now)...and, that is, simply, <i>appraising the market value of our coins</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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