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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3104600, member: 71723"]Then you may or may not be "rich", but you've proven you are really dumb. You were sold a bill of goods and now all you have left to do is try to unsuccessfully defend the bill of goods you were sold. The only questions are:1) touted by whom, and2) was HE that stupid, or did he think YOU were? Page 6, PREFACE, 7th edition, copyright 2013. Quote:"The official ANA grading standards do not seek to influence or establish current grading practices, but to report, clarify and explain them. By reading and applying the ANA's standards, you will understand technical grading, [this last emphasis is mine] the foundation on which coin grading began, and today's real-world market grading practices." Then, later on page 15:"Who sets the definitions? The grades of coins are not God-given, nor are they scientific, nor are they immutable [for Doug's edification]. Perhaps like the English language, coin grades change based upon their use. Today, we have to consider what leading grading services such as ANACS, ICG, NGC, and PCGS do [Hmm, no ACG.], as well as what can be observed in offerings in auction sales, dealers' stocks, and coin shows. [remember when  I wrote that was important?] It may well happen that grading interpretations will shift some more in the future. In the meantime, your challenge is to keep abreast of changes as they occur [!!!!!], and to use this and other texts as a useful guide to concepts and basics." END OF QUOTE: Sounds pretty reserved to me. No claim of authoritativeness whatsoever from my reading of it. Buuuuuut, if you want to be captured by the cover title, that's YOUR call. The most disappointing words in the 7th edition are at the top of page 2:"Printed in China".[/QUOTE]

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