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Mike you are talking about 2 differnt things. Removing the value aspect from grading is an idea I am all in favor of - and it could easily be done without changing any other aspect of the grading system we currently have. All it woulld take would be the market - you and everybody else is the market - accepting it. But they won't accept it because the market wants their coins priced - not graded.
The issue with strike is completely different, but it doesn't work. I have explained why many times now. But for some reason it just won't sink in. You are talking about basing a coin's grade on theory - instead of reality. How can you escape the logic that if all things are not equal then they cannot be compared to each other ? And that is the reality - that is the fact. Coins from different dates and mints are not equal because they are not made the same.
Ya know, I have used the ananolgy of comparing apples to oranges in this diuscussion. But even that is not accurate. It would be more accurate for the purposes of this discussion to compare apples, well, to apples.
Did you know for instance that there are at least 20 different varieties of apples. And guess what ? You cannot compare them to each other. Why ? Because they are all different - they are all made differently. Some are sweet and some are sour, some make good pies and some make terrible pies. Some make good apple sauce and some make terrible apple sauce. This is just a simple fact. Facts tend to be difficult to ignore just because you don't like them.
Same thing when it comes to grading coins. Just because you think it would be easier to grade coins if you treated them as if they were all supposed to look exactly the same in regard to strike does not mean it is possible. It is not possible because they are not all the same. They are different. And because they are different we have the system we have - as we should.
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