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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1434289, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;m not saying the TPGs do follow the ANA book Rusty. Read what I said previously - </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Do you not understand what that means ? If you don&#039;t, let me put it a different way. What it is saying is this - </p><p><br /></p><p>The rules and standards listed in this book are the rules and standards used and followed by NGC and PCGS. And one of those rules is - &quot;In reality, the &#039;market grade&#039; of a coin is the lower of the two grades of its sides.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Because the obv is the side of the coin that most often will show contact marks, hairlines, scratches, breaks in the luster, etc etc. The obv is the side with the large open spaces like the fields in front of and behind the central figure, flat smooth areas like the cheek and the neck. It is these areas that will most easily show everything detrimental that a coin can have. While the rev of the coin is often too busy with design features that hide or disguise the bad things.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why they say the obv is the most important side.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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