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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 1063975, member: 5629&quot;]There are a number of numismatists that utilize the ANA Standards as &quot;the&quot; standard.&nbsp; However, as a numismatist learns more and more about the coin market, and grading in general, I believe that a number of different standards become incorporated into the individual&#039;s own &quot;standard&quot; for grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a number of different predominant standards in the market.&nbsp; Some are published, and some are not.&nbsp; Some standards, including those that are used by some of the TPGs, are only learned by actually scrutinizing their products and insider information regarding their procedures and policies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do not be mistaken, the TPGs, including PCGS and NGC, do not strictly adhere to &quot;the&quot; ANA Standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally incorporate standards published by the ANA as well as Ruddy&#039;s Photograde and the published Brown &amp; Dunn standards into my own grading standards.&nbsp; The AccuGrade published standards for each series is also a good source I utilize, as well as the N.C.I. Grading Guidelines for uncirculated coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading is subjective, regardless of any group of organizations that may try to espouse differently.&nbsp; The very notion of grading commands subjectivity.&nbsp; At any point where a bias is involved in the decision, this is subjectivity.&nbsp; And because everybody has a different bias, everybody has a different opinion.&nbsp; There is no right or wrong, or &quot;fact&quot;, involved with opinion, only gross negligence and disregard for objective &quot;technical&quot; issues.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>ANA, AccuGrade, Ruddy&#039;s Photograde, Brown &amp; Dunn, the N.C.I. Grading Guidelines, and, although by far not a complete publication of their standard, the PCGS Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, when buying and selling, no grading is &quot;complete&quot; without an analysis of the current market and its rejection or acceptability of the particular coin in question to withstand a certain range of grades (for you market graders out there). Not all MS-65s are graded equal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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