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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3204177, member: 19165&quot;]This is a matter of perspective. You seem to be beholden to the modern collector&#039;s mindset, where the TPG is the absolute authority. That is absolutely the wrong mindset when writing a reference like this. The TPG is merely an opinion - and you have to understand how to grade, how to identify errors, and how to compare your opinion to that of the TPG in order to be successful. If you are writing a book about errors, you are saying that you are an expert on errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Credibility comes from demonstrated mastery of a subject. The TPGs have a reputation of being credible, and thus they are deemed credible. You either have to build a reputation in the industry (such as Weinberg), or you have to demonstrate in your book that you are knowledgeable on your subject and should be deemed credible. This comes through original and well documented research (such as Burdette, Lange, and others), or a really, really good book.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, you have to decide:</p><p><br /></p><p>Are you referring to ANACS, NGC, and PCGS as the authority and merely explaining what they are labeling as errors?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or are you explaining to us what the error is and showing us what to look for.</p><p><br /></p><p>The question really is, who is the expert here?</p><p><br /></p><p>The answer is - if you want me to buy and read your book, you need to be the expert. You can quote Fred Weinberg and use him to help your explanation; you can use NGC as a comparison point for the name of the error or how they label it, but you must absolutely be the expert. If you&#039;re simply repeating what the other experts have said, why wouldn&#039;t I just go listen to the other experts?</p><p><br /></p><p>(this, to answer in a succinct fashion the question you posed in another recent thread, is the difference between a collector and a numismatist)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, in a book about errors, the grade is absolutely irrelevant. To error collectors, the grade means almost nothing compared to the error. I couldn&#039;t give a rip if they called your double-flip overstruck broadstruck Lincoln a 55 BN or a 64 RB - the premium comes from the error, not the grade. How many times did you see Arnold Margolis talk about the grade of the coin in his book? Not a single time. You are not writing a book about grading, you are writing a book about errors. (You may have a chapter about the grading of errors, but I&#039;m assuming that is not your primary focus)</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I stand by my point - the ANACS label is completely irrelevant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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