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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1882228, member: 112&quot;]Sorry Paul, but date of the PCGS book being published has nothing to do with why I say that the TPGs loosened their grading standards in 2004, nor have I ever made such a claim. We have discussed and beat the issue to death many, many times. And I&#039;m not about to do it again. </p><p><br /></p><p>And no, I&#039;m not the only collector who has ever said that PCGS does not follow their own published grading standards, there have been many. The coins themselves are the best evidence of this. But before you can believe something you first have to be willing to believe the evidence when you see it. It&#039;s called denial, no matter how much evidence there is that what you believe is not true, you will continue to believe that it is true purely because you don&#039;t want to believe that it isn&#039;t. In other words, you have to be able to keep an open mind, some people just can&#039;t do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Eddie, the ANA established market grading in 1986, the same year that the TPGs first came into being. A lot of folks don&#039;t really understand what market grading is. They seem to think that market grading is based purely on value, but that is not the case. There are several major differences between market grading and technical grading. Those differences are composed of the addition of more and different grading criteria being used to establish the grade of a coin than what was used in technical grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a time when the TPGs followed the same basic principles, not the same standards but the same basic set of grading criteria than the ANA used. There was time that the TPGs did not allow the value, the scarcity, or pedigree, of a coin to have any bearing at all on the grade they assigned to a coin. The addition of allowing those things to have a bearing on the grade assigned came later. But yet those are the things that some people think of as being what defines market grading. That isn&#039;t what market grading is at all, that&#039;s TPG grading.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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