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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sundance79, post: 2818280, member: 84413&quot;]Would adding a number of 1 -5 to the current MS grading system be beneficial to the grading system and for the hobby as a whole?</p><p><br /></p><p>I bring this up because a couple of weeks ago I was at a coin show looking for a slabbed Morgan dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked at several different Morgans, all PCGS MS64 dollars. On one the strike was so poor that if it had not been slabbed, I would have thought it was an AU50.</p><p><br /></p><p>After looking at several, I bought what I thought was the best in that all the hairs along the forehead were sharp and extremely well defined.</p><p><br /></p><p>It got me to thinking, should there be a grade for the strike itself?</p><p><br /></p><p>Already the are things like FS for ‘Full Steps” on Jefferson nickels, FBL for “Full Bands Line” on Franklin Halfs and several others.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what if when you were looking at slabbed coins with an MS60 or above, there was an additional S1 thru S5 that indicated a grade of just the strike of the coin. That might mean that an MS60 S5 would be valued more by collectors than an MS63 S3 of an MS65 S1.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think many of us may be doing this in our own minds already just as I did with my recent Morgan purchase.&nbsp; And sometimes I will see a coin advestised as a very good or excellent strike example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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