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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 8301804, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;m not even really sure what you mean by that. But between 1986 (3rd edition) and today (7th edition) the ANA grading standards did not change. With two exceptions, with each being for a single specific coin of a single date, one an Indian cent, the other Buffalo nickel. And that change was only with a single circulated grade - all other grading standards for all other grades for those 2 single coins remain exactly the same today as they were in 1986.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the TPGs, they most definitely loosened their grading standards in 2004 and have continued to loosen them several times ever since then.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>They do not. As I said directly above, the ANA standards regarding marks, dings, bagmarks allowed are the same as they were in 1986.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wrong, the ANA definition of wear has never changed. And the specification that any MS coin must have absolutely no wear on it - that has never changed either. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Wrong, toned or not toned made absolutely no difference in the grade of a coin when the ANA used technical grading. </p><p><br /></p><p>Starting in 1986, with ANA standards, toning could affect the grade of a coin, but only in regard to eye appeal. </p><p><br /></p><p>With technical grading, eye appeal wasn&#039;t even one the grading criteria. Eye appeal didn&#039;t matter at all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it says that. But what they&#039;re talking about is <b>the time period before 1986.</b> Before the TPGs even existed, and before the ANA issued it&#039;s 3rd edition. In other words, those coins that were graded MS65 and became MS63- they were graded before 1986 when only technical grading was used. It was only after the 3rd edition came out and technical grading ended that those MS65s became MS63s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Technical grading ended completely and totally in 1986. The ANA no longer used it - it ceased to exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something maybe you aren&#039;t aware of or don&#039;t understand is that in 1977 when the ANA issued their 1st edition and used technical grading, there were only 3 MS grades - MS60, MS65, and MS70. No other MS grades even existed back then. </p><p><br /></p><p>When they issued their 2nd edition, they added 2 more MS grades, MS63 and MS67 - so there 5 MS grades then. But they still used technical grading back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was not until 1986 with the 3rd edition that all the other MS grades were added giving us 11 MS grades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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