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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1238852, member: 112"]But with any grading system, even the early ones like Sheldon's, or Brown and Dunn, or the original ANA standards - all of which were 100% technical grading - the grade always equates to a value. It's always been that way. The difference, and the problem as I see it, is that with the grading system that the TPGs use today (and they didn't use to do this) is that as the value of a coin goes up, so does the grade. And THAT should not happen. As I have said many times, the are several differences between market grading and techinical grading. But in the beginning and for many years after the market grading system was adopted, value played no part whatsoever in determining the grade of a coin. It has only been in recent years that the TPGs started playing this game where value affects the grade. And that's the problem, and it's why most people don't understand what market grading really is. All they see is what happens now, and they forget, or never knew, how it used to be. So today they think that market grading is based largely on value alone because they equate "market" with money or value. But even that isn't true. The only reason anyone ever chose the term market grading to begin with was to differentiate it from technical grading. They didn't have any other name to use, so they chose that one.[/QUOTE]