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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 524900, member: 112&quot;]No, not at all. What I am suggesting is that everybody use the same set of grading standards. As it is now, NGC has their own set of standards, PCGS has their set standards, ICG has theirs, ANACS has theirs, the ANA has theirs, and so on. And each and every one of them are different from all of the others. I would like them all to use the same set - that&#039;s all.</p><p><br /></p><p>And NP, yes I agree completely that coin grading is subjective and always will be. But don&#039;t you think it would be a whole lot easier for people to learn how to grade if there was only 1 set of grading standards instead of 5 different sets of standards ? And don&#039;t you think a large part of that subjectivity would be removed if only 1 set of standards were used instead of 5 ? Now rather obviously it&#039;s pretty hard to say no to either of those questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you&#039;re right, nobody could be forced to do this. But let&#039;s just say for the sake of argument that NGC, ANACS, ICG and the ANA all agreed to adopt and follow 1 set of grading standards - and let&#039;s say that was the ANA standards we currently have. But PCGS refused to do so. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now since the ANA standards are tougher than those used by PCGS, and that is a fact not an opinion, do you really think that PCGS would be able to stay in business since all the coins they graded would be considered to be overgraded by everybody else ? No, they would not. Submittals would drop like a hot rock.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the point is, the TPG&#039;s, dealers, collectors, basically everybody would <u>choose</u> to follow the universal grading standards. They wouldn&#039;t have to be forced to do so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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