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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;charley, post: 8297697, member: 5372&quot;]And? There are 19 choices in the dictionary of the word &quot;Standard&quot;. None state &quot;fact&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;thing&quot; that really matters is: what the collector decides is acceptable for their particular opinion. It is not&nbsp; your opinion is the correct opinion, and it most certainly is not that the ANA Standard is anything but an opinion that was foisted on the collecting community as a wonderful and purposeful and useful method to expand the hobby and create a market for the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>If ANA was so successful and the bestest of the bestest and the Standards were created by individuals with nothing to gain and was/is the only acceptable fact of the condition of a coin to adhere to, there would be no TPGs, and there would not have been coin doctors (you mentioned earlier concerning the contributors to the ANA publication and insinuated, by wording, your association with the contributors). Read the list again. How many formed TPGs? How many formed a 4PG? How many were dealers with nothing to gain? How many were in the insurance business? How many were coin doctors? You should know... just review the names.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your bloviating of the superiority of ANA&nbsp; &quot;Standards&quot; as created by somebody not trying to sell something and&nbsp; created by &quot;those&quot; that have nothing to gain, is Baloney.</p><p><br /></p><p>Has the organization helped grow the hobby over the years? Yes. Other than that (which is really the only reason it should exist), it is no more or no less capable than any TPG, and certainly is not as capable as a 4PG-specifically CAC.</p><p><br /></p><p>I vote that CAC be the &quot;Standard&quot; for &quot;Standards&quot;. After all, using your interesting terminology of ANA, CAC represents the present &quot;contemporary grading standards&quot;, and are certainly more contemporary than your position that ANA is more contemporary than PCGS. Please.</p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion is that you are not in favor of any TPG or 4PG entity, for some unexplained reason that can&#039;t be supported by logic,&nbsp; and prefer your position to be the correct and only position on the subject of acceptable &quot;standards&quot;, and that is fine. But (there is always a &quot;but&quot;), it is not fact.. It is no more and no less than an opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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