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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3105444, member: 71723"]Right now, I have on my desk the ANA's Grading Mint State U.S. Coins: An ANA Correspondence Course. This is not some Whitman book you can pluck off the shelf at Ollie's Bargain Outlet. This is part of the ANA's Numismatic Diploma Program of courses. My copy is copyright 1999, because that's when I took the course. "High Honors", by the way. Section 3 is called "Grading Philosophies", starting on page 11. There are three subsections. On page 12 is "Market vs. Technical Grading". On page 13 is "Technical vs. Market Grading" (two different authors, what can I say?). On page 16 is "Grading Components", the very same big 4 I wrote of upthread. In ALL of it, it reports that FOR MINT STATE COINS, technical grading is obsolete. It's still useable for circulated grades. The ENTIRE rest of the book teaches how to market grade with all the ANA imprimatur that the book Rich has lacks. And that's the truth. 19 years ago. Not recently. 19 years. Next year it's 20 years. Get it? Geez, you'd think smart guys would be able to keep up within two decades. [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER], [USER=22331]@imrich[/USER], [USER=307]@mikenoodle[/USER]. Tag, you're it.[/QUOTE]