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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2296711, member: 24314&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>You may like to try some of the newer grading guides.&nbsp; The ANA Guide (virtually unchanged since original publication) is way outdated and needs major revision which costs money.&nbsp; If everyone followed the old standards you and I learned as published in that book much of the grading discrepancies between collectors would be eliminated.&nbsp; Unfortunately, most dealers back then and now ignore the book.&nbsp; Nevertheless, the introduction to that book (up to the Half Cent pages) should be required reading (along with the intro to Grading coins by photographs) by EVERYONE before they could post answers in the grading forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other thing.&nbsp; In spite of what most think, if we were to eliminate the over-graded and under-graded TPGS slabs the millions of correctly graded coins by all four major TPGS would fall in very close agreement.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS&nbsp; I&#039;m not picking on you, I admire your long-time devotion to education.&nbsp; I&#039;m just reading this old thread and adding some comments - just because this is an open form and THANKS![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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