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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 1881793, member: 4920&quot;]Who started market grading? I&#039;m wondering why only the coin collecting hobby took that hair-brained turn. Put me in the room. Whose idea was that? In every other hobby--notes, comics, stamps, cards, pocket watches, etc.--collectors still have the brains enough to connect the grade with condition. In market grading, it&#039;s anything that pumps up the market, turns it on. At least when the coin grades were tied to condition there was some degree of logic behind the grades. The ANA didn&#039;t make up those conditional standards, it rather just classified them for us, based on the various condition-levels. Today, for example, can one really hold a TPG to a grade as meaningless as a market grade? Don&#039;t forget about the pretty color. Don&#039;t forget about the status, the pedigree. Who messed up this hobby like that? Did you ever wonder at that? I&#039;ll bet they became the TPGs. It&#039;s just a theory I have. I know it wasn&#039;t from popular demand. Really, what coin collectors would demand grading standards as frivolous as eye appeal?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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