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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 23768396, member: 112&quot;]I think the scale works great, individually or put together. And yes, I readily agree with you that an AU58 often &quot;looks&quot; better, sometimes even much better, than a 61. I would even say that any of the AU grades can &quot;look&quot; better than a 61. </p><p><br /></p><p>But here&#039;s the thing, or at least what is supposed to be the thing when it comes to grading a coin any of the MS numbers. To be MS that coin than can have absolutely no wear on it. That&#039;s the defining factor, the defining grading criteria. If a coin has any wear at all on it, then it cannot be graded as MS. And as I said above, that was and has been the defining factor for as long as grading has existed. And there was a time when it was defining factor for the TPGs too. And it stayed that way for them until they decided it didn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;m seeing as the primary difference between your position and mine is that an AU coin &quot;looking&quot; better than an MS coin is a problem. I do not see it as a problem at all. Because &quot;looks&quot;, what is referred to as eye appeal in grading, is merely 1 of the numerous grading criteria. And eye appeal is used to help differentiate all the grades from each other - not just the MS grades. And eye appeal alone cannot make a coin MS anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, I absolutely do not advocate technical grading. I am and always have been a huge fan of the market grading system ever since the ANA created it in 1986. The difference between market grading and technical grading is all the different and additional grading criteria that the market grading system uses that the technical grading system never used. But both market grading and technical grading state that there can be absolutely no wear on an MS coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Market grading is not making excuses like wear being allowed on MS coins, or making excuses so that any grade can be higher than it should be. And that&#039;s what the TPGs do now. Quite simply they do this for 2 reasons and two reasons only - to make a keep their customers happy, and to keep their businesses going.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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