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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2981658, member: 71723"]DING! DING! DING! Winnah, winnah, chicken dinnah! The ANA attempts MERELY to REPORT what goes on in the market, not to set standards. This is perhaps the single biggest misconception about that wretched book, despite the fact that its intended purpose is right there within it in black and white. The most misused numismatic book EVER. As [USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] has intimated, [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] ’s views on grading (specifically those stated in post #10 above) are so hopelessly out of date that they should be written down on high quality parchment and preserved in a nitrogen-filled case and kept for posterity as a historical relic and curiosity. I mean, the guy even ADMITS he hasn’t even READ the most recent edition, which should disqualify him right there. "Single and static"? Give me a break. The hardest, and most valuable, thing that “fossils” like Doug and I can do is to constantly remain self-aware enough to realize when we’ve achieved irrelevance. It’s really really difficult! It requires CONSTANT re-education and the application of new resources.[/QUOTE]