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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 722867, member: 2972&quot;]Remember guys, TPGs don&#039;t technical grade coins, they market grade them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Said another way, a really attractive coin that doesn&#039;t have full rims can get graded higher if its a nice looking example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing new here, really, but I&#039;m concerned that this may be lost as we continue to discuss technical grading attributes (i.e. rims) on coins that are not graded by the TPGs to that scale (and yes, I know what they say in their grading standards <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> -- I&#039;m talking real world here).</p><p><br /></p><p>Market grading (TPG) != technical grading (ANA).</p><p><br /></p><p>NOTE: That&#039;s not to say one method is any better than the other -- there are certainly merits in both -- but rather that they are different and we should be careful in mixing them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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