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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 8303943, member: 112&quot;]Is it possible still don&#039;t understand that there <b>is no debate</b> about technical grading vs market grading ? Certainly not from me anyway. This is because absolutely nobody uses the technical grading system today and <b>nobody has used it</b> since 1986.</p><p><br /></p><p>This part is a fact - the ANA completely stopped using the technical grading system in their grading books in 1986. The technical grading system was literally thrown away by the ANA !</p><p><br /></p><p>And the new grading system that the ANA invented in 1986, and published in the 3rd edition of their grading book was market grading, and still is market grading in every edition since then. The reason it is and is called market grading is because they added 6 additional grading criteria that the &quot;market&quot; - defined as basically the majority of everybody involved in numismatics, including the greatest names there are in numismatics - wanted them to use those 6 additional grading criteria as part of their grading system. Because none of those new grading criteria had ever been used, by anybody, to grade a coin ! And the market wanted coins to be graded based on the 6 new grading criteria, combined with/plus the original 3 grading criteria.</p><p><br /></p><p>If there is any debate about anything at all - it&#039;s whose about grading standards do you (meaning anyone) want to use ? Put another way, whose grading standards are better - those of the ANA, or those of the TPGs ? </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the only debate there is ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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