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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3103189, member: 112&quot;]And thinking that I do that, well that&#039;s just one of your many mistakes ! </p><p><br /></p><p>I learned to grade by reading and studying all of the books on grading Kurt, and by looking at and studying hundreds of thousands of coins. And when I give recommendations to others of how they can learn to grade, I don&#039;t give recommendations for just books, let alone 1 book, but I do recommend they read all of them. And then I recommend that they look at hundreds of thousands of coins and study them. And I also recommend that they find a mentor, somebody who knows how to grade, and study with them. And that they never stop doing any of this ! </p><p><br /></p><p>What I say about the ANA book Kurt is that it is the best out of all the books on grading. Do you know why ? Because it has actual grading standards in it. Listed criteria for each and every coin in every grade. You know, the kind of stuff that standards are actually supposed to be. I mean that&#039;s what standards are, that is the very definition of the word. Ya see Kurt, standards, in order to even be standards, they have to be things that are established and that don&#039;t change. Because if they change, then they aren&#039;t and weren&#039;t standards to begin with - by definition.</p><p><br /></p><p>But tell me Kurt, the grading standards that the TPGs use today, where are they listed, where are they written ? And do you even know what the TPG standards are ? And if ya don&#039;t, well then what standards do you use Kurt and where did you get them ? And are they the same standards you used 20 years ago ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or are you like the TPGs, somebody who doesn&#039;t even use standards and just grades coins any way they want to ? And tells their employees they have to do it that way too ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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