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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3193341, member: 66&quot;]PCGS floated a trial ballon proposing a 100 point scale years ago (I believe while Guth was President)&nbsp; It got shot down.&nbsp; So then they gave us the + grades instead.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In the article Guth says it gets rid of the + grades and gives them whole number.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Currently, the coin market squeezes plus or half grades, known as split grades, into the 60 to 70 range. The Guth 100 Point Coin Grading Scale assigns whole numbers to split grades and eliminates decimals, rounding and pluses,&quot; said Guth.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, for now.&nbsp; If this was adopted does anyone believe that years from now &quot;in between&quot; grades would not reappear? In the early years of TPG grading there were only three grades of MS.&nbsp; Then they added two more, then added another&nbsp; and finally added five more.&nbsp; In the early years of slabbing ACG briefly introduced decimal grades and were laughed at because it was said no one could grade that finely.&nbsp; In 1991 Compugrade used decimal grades but the company failed.&nbsp; Now they use + grades for in between grades and no one batts an eye.&nbsp; Then CAC looks and tell you if it is solid or high end for the grade which effectively doubles the number of grades again.&nbsp; No matter what they do eventually someone will create a new &quot;between&quot; grade to try and justify a higher price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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