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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 2094005, member: 4920&quot;]Lehigh, that proposition, &quot;wear is wear,&quot; is how collectors graded coins from the beginning of time. Ask Doug, he was here back then (lol). There&#039;s where you don&#039;t seem to understand. You seem to think I&#039;m making this up or imposing my standards on a hobby that&#039;s been reluctant to accept them. Not so. Enter market grading. That&#039;s where the cornerstone of this &quot;hobby&quot; dropped out. State of preservation is at the cornerstone in every single grading system including numismatics until the ANA went off on a frolic of its own with this market grading monkey business. What was the consequence? It was that now in coin clubs all across the country instead of evaluating a coin on its state of preservation we&#039;re sitting there looking across the room at one another arguing whether and to what degree it&#039;s eye appealing or deserves a star or a plus or a sticker and if so a green one or a gold one. That&#039;s what we&#039;re good at, now. Oh, and whether it&#039;s AT, NT, QT, let&#039;s not forget that. A monkey can grade coins that way. If not, an orangutan, I&#039;m sure one of those can.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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