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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 5124841, member: 24314&quot;]baseball21, posted: &quot;Even if you say [<i><span style="color: #b30059">What I say means nothing and will not change anything. I&#039;m just stating provable FACT because as you stated, I was there.&nbsp; I claim to be the &quot;author&quot; of &quot;the true (not used by the ANA in CO) technical grading system.&quot; and I was around to see it made obsolete by the commercial TPG&#039;s.&nbsp; There is no right or wrong in this.&nbsp; The market made a choice to go with a system based on VALUE.&nbsp; That way, grading was no longer simple and precise and the majority of us came under the control of knowledgeable dealers.&nbsp; They know the fluctuating market value of coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></i>] value or subjective measures have no place in grading, grading standards were still different in the 1950s than they were in the 1890s.&nbsp; They have always been changing over time as I&#039;m sure you know, it&#039;s easiest to explain that way as some people end up getting confused and think the changes are just a function of the TPGs. <span style="color: #b30059"><i>[&quot;True&quot; technical grading only assessed the condition of preservation of a coin from its as struck appearance.&nbsp; It was precise and did not change over time or economic conditions.&nbsp; All changes in grading (including removing the MS line) have occurred due to the control of the TPGS and increases in the value of coins.]</i></span>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>GoldFinger1969, posted: &quot;<i>I take it that graders are aware of key &quot;inflection points&quot; where price/value increases a ton, right ?&quot;&nbsp; </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #b30059">Yes, most of them who were successful coin dealers at one time. </span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Pickin and Grinin, posted: &quot;...<b><span style="color: #b30000">The changes [<i>in grading standards</i>]&quot;ARE&quot; a function of the TPG&#039;s. The collector did not ask for market grading. They did not ask for a clearly AU coin to be graded as uncirculated. We did not create the slider market.&quot;<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6">AMEN! </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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