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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3029540, member: 24314&quot;]Where do I start throwing the knives. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Net grading is fine for the little group (thousands of EAC professionals) living in the world of copper.&nbsp; They have been at it for so long (just published an EAC Grading Guide) they pretend to understand <b>a system that they admit in their grading guide is confusing and not standard or routinely duplicated even by their own members</b>.&nbsp; Sound familiar to the one we and the TPGS&#039;s use? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is that the original &quot;Technical Grading System&quot; developed in Washington, DC in 1973 was easy to understand, easy to teach, easy to use, consistent over the passing years, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Net Grading&quot; as practiced by anyone is inconsistent, hard to explain, and impossible to teach.&nbsp; I was in attendance with the Director of ANACS at the first grading roundtable in NYC.&nbsp; The futility of developing an ANA Grading Guide became apparent when over a dozen successful, well known, and famous professional numismatists graded an early Large cent that was a perfect match for the XF coin in Photograde from VF to AU for various reasons!&nbsp; That was the only evidence I needed to confirm the &quot;folly&quot; of net grading a coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I&#039;ll take some knives too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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