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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 1238638, member: 4920&quot;]Doug, I&#039;m sorry, but I think I&#039;m going to have to give you an &quot;eddiespin <i>dislikes</i> this&quot; on this one. You&#039;re not seeing the forest for the trees. All market grading does is seeks to assign market prices to coins, couched in the terminology of grades, based on market criteria extrinsic to or apart from the actual technical condition of the coins. That&#039;s it. That&#039;s all there is to it. Whether that market criteria be color (tarnish), detail (strike), status (pedigree), or, what have you, market grading allows those market criteria to actually influence the grade based on how desirable or undesirable the grader may personally happen to feel about those market criteria. Market grading, thus, is a pretentious style of grading, but that was necessary to pave the way for the business of the TPGs (and, for that matter, CAC). Of course, don&#039;t expect David Hall or John Albanese to tell you that anytime soon. But, that&#039;s the bottom-line. Or, at least, that&#039;s how I see it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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