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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 401469, member: 112&quot;]A very valid point. And it is one that all too many seem to forget. In today&#039;s world, what we call the coin market is largely made up of collectors and dealers who have accepted the TPG&#039;s. The number of those who have accepted the TPG&#039;s far, far surpasses the number of those who have not accepted them. Like it or not, that&#039;s how it is. So when one talks about the coin market you are talking about the majority - not the minority.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now it is human nature to usually think that most others think just like you do. But if you are one of those who does not accept the TPG&#039;s, most do not think like you do. That doesn&#039;t make them right and you wrong - it just makes you different from the majority.And when it comes to making a market, you can bet that it will be the majority that makes it. And if the majority is willing to accept that a Buffalo nickel with a partial horn can be graded as VF, then that&#039;s how it will be. In fact, that&#039;s how it is. And it&#039;s been that way now for over 20 years. Don&#039;t expect it to change.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that doesn&#039;t mean that you can&#039;t keep on trying to change it, it&#039;s just my advice to not hold out false hope. Believe me, nobody, but nobody would like it more than me to see changes occur with the grading industry. I&#039;d probably fall over into my grave with joy if one day all collectors and dealers alike would band together and force the changes to where every TPG there was, and every collector and dealer there was used one agreed upon set of grading standards for now and ever after.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I have never been one to ignore reality. I&#039;ve always chosen to stand up and face it, deal with it and learn to live it. To do otherwise is foolish and it does nothing but make your life harder than it needs to be. </p><p><br /></p><p>But at the same time I keep on working, I keep on hoping, I keep on trying to make changes, slowly, gradually. For that is how change comes about. Rarely is it sudden and overhwleming, it tends to sneak up on you. And for those who ignore reality, they fail to see any change until it is too late. And by then the change is so drastic that they can no longer ignore it and they will rant and rave and go on and on about how bad it is. And cry to the heavens about why can&#039;t we go back to the old way ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, ya can&#039;t, because now there are new people, younger people, different people involved and they liked the change. And there are more of them than there are of you. So you can either learn to live with them and deal with the changes or you can be miserable. But that&#039;s how it is when the old majority becomes the new minority. And it happens time and time again.</p><p><br /></p><p>And NP, the ANA has followed market grading standards not since their 5th edition of the grading standards, they have done it since the 3rd edition. In 1986, with the advent of the TPG&#039;s, it was decided to change from technical grading to market grading. And they have followed it ever since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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