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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7354777, member: 24314&quot;]GDJMSP, posted: &quot;As I have also told you before, it&#039;s NOT a matter of technical grading vs market grading. Technical grading ceased to exist in 1986. NGC, PCGS, and ICG have never, ever, used technical grading. <span style="color: #b30000">ANACS is the only TPG who ever used it.</span> And even they stopped using technical grading in &#039;86 - when the <span style="color: #b300b3">ANA invented market grading!</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Just a few observations...</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #b30000">1. ANACS NEVER used true technical grading as they did not understand it and no one out there ever had it explained to them.&nbsp; What they did was &quot;parrot&quot; a name from its developers in DC and &quot;parasite&quot; some of the system&#039;s parameters.&nbsp; Actual technical grading continued to be used only at the first grading service - INSAB.</span></i> </p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #b300b3">2.&nbsp; I think &quot;invented&quot; is a little misplaced.&nbsp; &quot;Market grading&quot; is just a term used to define the actual grading being done by folks who bought and sold coins.&nbsp; ANA used it to differentiate that standard from the one they published.&nbsp; Virtually NO ONE <b>in the business</b> (except some of the little fish dealers) EVER followed the ANA Grading standards.&nbsp; That&#039;s unfortunate.</span></i> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><i>I look at it this way.&nbsp; If a group set up a standard and everyone followed it, most of the &quot;problems&quot; associated with grading would disappear.&nbsp; Value, rarity, ownership, etc. WOULD NO LONGER MATTER!</i>&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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