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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 292720, member: 112&quot;]Well, I won&#039;t say that I favor technical grading over market grading - technical grading just leaves too much out IMO. But I will readily agree and stand strongly in favor of removing the impact that price can have on market grading. I have always and will always agree that the grade should stay the same. </p><p><br /></p><p>And for the most part it has. ANA grading standards have remained the same since 1987. And to a large degree so have the standards of the TPG&#039;s. Now many may say that is not so, but consider this. If it were true that as the price goes up that the grade goes up - then why haven&#039;t grades gone up ? After all, in just the past 4 - 5 years prices for many coins have increased 300% - 400% or more. But yet we don&#039;t see 64&#039;s becoming 65&#039;s or 65&#039;s becoming 66&#039;s. So apparently the grades are not going up as prices do. </p><p><br /></p><p>That, and the fact that I have in my lifetime lived through two separate periods where we had very strong bull markets, and the prices of coins greatly increased in both of them - but yet I never saw the grades increase along with the prices - that forces me to a conclusion. That conclusion is - that even though I have always been taught and read that in the market grading system that grades increase when prices do - that it simply isn&#039;t so.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact the only real evidence of that aspect of the system that I have seen is the exact opposite. But it did happen. For when the ANA tightened up their grading standards in 1987, Boy Howdy the prices sure dropped. And how ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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