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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3100611, member: 112"]The passage you're referring to states that they (the ANA) are reporting grading standards currently being used in the market place. Unfortunately this is patently not true because no TPG, (with the possible exception of ANACS in the very beginning), has ever followed or used the grading standards listed in the ANA grading books ! But I grant ya Kurt, the book does say that. It just isn't true, and the folks who wrote the book know it, and know it quite well. The only people who follow and actually use ANA grading standards are some dealers and private individuals. How many, nobody really knows. But since the market place is defined as being what the TPGs do and the grading standards followed and used by the TPGs - then rather obviously the ANA book is NOT merely reporting grading standards in use in the market place. And they are instead declaring their own grading standards and what they think they should be. As for this - Well, OK. But if you look in the book, actually read it as you suggested, it lists a rather sizable list of names of contributors, with those contributors being the people who decided what the grading standards contained in the book should actually be. And oddly enough more than a few of those names happen to be men who not only work or have worked at the TPGs, but some who actually founded the TPGs. Along with most of the most respected names there are in numismatics. All of whom are and have long been members of the ANA. But an actual committee ? Well, somebody at the ANA sure decided what was going to be in it. And oddly enough those grading standards in it, haven't changed since 1987, with 2, count 'em 2, exceptions to the best of my knowledge.[/QUOTE]

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