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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7856061, member: 24314&quot;]Pickin and Grinin, posted: &quot;[USER=24314]@Insider[/USER][/USER] It seems technical grading has come up often this past week. I even put up a GTG using technical grading in the title. I had thought originally that conservative was the best word, but it really isn&#039;t in my opinion. Conservatively IMO would be defined as maybe being to harsh on a coin. IE downgrading a coin due to either to much wear or not enough luster, weak strike, too many contact marks etc.</p><p>Technical standards are what most of us were taught. One big technical standard is the presence of wear no matter how the coin was handled/stored, It doesn&#039;t get upgraded because it sat in a cabinet, It also doesn&#039;t get MS just because it is evident that it was stacked.</p><p>Conservatively= harsh/tough on the coin.</p><p>Technical= grade based only on its merit&#039;s.</p><p>Market= overlooking one aspect and rewarding it for another.</p><p>Also Market grading is tricky, one day the market says X characteristic is appealing and another day Y is appealing.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)">Unlike the OP, at least you made an attempt to describe technical grading; however, <b><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 51)">a strict line between AU and MS is NOT what defines &quot;true technical grading</span>&quot; </b>as it was formulated in the beginning.&nbsp; You see, that strict line (no trace of wear for MS coins) existed before the &quot;author&quot; of that grading system <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie84" alt=":smug:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> was born.&nbsp; You were taught the &quot;bastardized&quot; version from folks who did not have a clue when they adopted that descriptive word &quot;technical.&quot;&nbsp; I have sent an article based on a CT discussion off to be published in <i>Numismatic News</i>.&nbsp;&nbsp; After publication, I&#039;ll comment further. </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)">Until then, the amount of wear on a coin is only one of its surface characteristics.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)">Before the ANA &quot;screwed the grading pooch&quot; by combining the amount of surface marks and wear for grades from AU down; the amount of detail that remained on a coin was what determined its grade - once there was a trace of friction wear.&nbsp; If the coin had no trace of wear it was MS.&nbsp; Most of the difference between a technical grade and commercial grade took place in the 60 to 70 range.&nbsp; Until coin dealers started a TPGS, the majority of coins grading MS by ANA or INS WERE JUST THAT.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)">The commercial market demanded a change and that&#039;s why this discussion exists.&nbsp; <b><font size="6"><span style="color: rgb(0, 179, 89)">A coin is either FULL MINT STATE or it is not.</span></font></b>&nbsp; It does not matter what your personal standard is or what is market acceptable.&nbsp; The only thing that matters is that you <b><i>learn to grade like the rest of them </i></b>by the study of TPGS coins, and classes. </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51)">That&#039;s another reason IMO this poll will be fun.&nbsp; Aside from a continuing misuse of&nbsp; the word &quot;technical&quot; for conservative, what we want the TPGS to do will not change anything.&nbsp; They got us and the interpretation of grading standards starting in 1986</span>!&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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