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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 5124977, member: 24314&quot;]baseball21, posted: &quot;Not really but if you want to be childish go right ahead. I&#039;m sorry I had a typo, how foolish of me.&nbsp; [<span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I have NO <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> CLUE what you are referring to.&nbsp; We are discussing grading and your opinions are IMPORTANT and ALWAYS respected by me!</span>] Almost as foolish as thinking that the market has no influence over grading [<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">Both you and I seem to agree that the &quot;market&quot; - as applied by the TPGS and CAC - HAS TOTAL INFLUENCE over how coins are graded!</span>] or that the standard someone created wasn&#039;t a change from the past.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>From my readings of grading ideas/systems over the past century and a half contained in a neat little book who&#039;s title slips my mind at the moment, MS was well defined UNTIL coin dealers started PCGS and gradually &quot;evolved&quot; the actual standard in place for decades as they <b>learned </b><span style="color: rgb(0, 179, 0)">(how <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> to <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> make <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</span><b> more</b>. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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