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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 240365, member: 112"]A bigger problem with computer grading would be trying to teach a computer how to judge quality of luster and eye appeal. That's why computer grading failed years ago. As for the ANA changing their grading standards, it might be worth noting that the biggest change they made was in 1986 when they made the standards a lot tougher than they were originally in 1977. They didn't loosen the standards - they tightened them. These changes affected only the MS grades. And in 2005 when the 6th edition of the standards was published the numismatic press and most coin forums made a big deal out of the standards being loosened in the new edition. They made it sound like it was a whole new set of standards. However - if one were to go back and compare the 6th edition to the 2nd edition, or even the 1st, line by line grade by grade and coin by coin - what you find out is in the 6th edition the standards were indeed changed, loosened in fact. But they were only changed for 2 coins in 1 grade only. The changes made were to ease the criteria for an Indian Head cent and a Buffalo nickel to grade VF. All the rest remained exactly the same as they always had been.[/QUOTE]