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Message:: [QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 2157828, member: 4920"]Kurt, you said in the thread on the reverse proof dimes that you collected proofs, and that you started that way. If that's the case, what did you have to know about technical grading? Your unflattering position on technical grading is becoming clearer. If you collected proofs, you never had to learn how to technical grade. Proofs had one grade, then, "proof." It was a mindless grade furnished to collectors by the manufacturer. There was no grading challenge collecting proofs. All you did was bought from a dealer or the Mint, instant grade. As that's the perspective you bring to this hobby, no wonder you fail to perceive the importance of learning how to technical grade. No wonder you don't get that collecting proofs and special Mint set made-to-order novelties present zero challenge to the collector, that's all you've been collecting. No wonder you're OK with made-to-order grades furnished to you by third-party graders, you never learned to grade, but to accept the grades that were furnished to you. No wonder you collect coins as though they're so many commodities. No wonder you fall into market grading. No wonder you think we who collect business strikes are antiquated because we don't accept that mindless system of "grading," which, again, is premised on the "proof system" of accepting what we're furnished, shutting up, and liking it, besides. Yeah. No wonder...[/QUOTE]