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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 683838, member: 112&quot;]Dang straight ! It&#039;s all your fault ! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah - that&#039;s your fault too !! :hail:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>eddie the TPG&#039;s have never paid any attention whatsoever to the ANA standards - not since day one. The TPG&#039;s have always, and will always, follow their own individual sets of grading standards and completely and totally ignore the ANA standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes - I think my response to Mark answers your question about them taking, as you say, liberties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, ya wanna here something that will probably surprise you ?</p><p><br /></p><p>From the ANA standards, 6th edition, 2005 - </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Lest the reader get thge wrong idea, this book <i><u>reports</u></i> the grading being used in th emarketplace. It does not <i><u>create</u></i> it. if the 6th edition were to give definitions that were not useful in th ebuying and selling of coins in the real life, it would not be of much use !</p><p><br /></p><p>Who sets the definitions ? The grades of coins are not God-given, nor are they scientific, nor are they immutable. Perhaps like the English language, coin grades change based upon their use. Today, we have to consider what the leading grading services such as ANACS, ICG, NGC and PCGS do, as well as what can observed in offerings in auction sales, dealers stocks, and coin shows.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may well happen that grading interpretations will shift some more in the future. In the meantime, your challenge is to keep abreast of changes as they occur ...........&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Now listen to what PCGS says - </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;From the outset, PCGS dedicated itself to standardized grading, so any fluctuations in the value of a coin would be limited to priuce swings, rather than market-related changes in grade. A Minst Stae MS65 coin would still be the same in any market - hot, cold or neutral. The price might change, but the grading would not - and could not - because the coin was encapsulated along with a unique serial number and a fixed grade.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Too bad they forgot to mention what happen if that coin was re-submitted <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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