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<p>[QUOTE="rick, post: 70415, member: 1235"]who knows what the future will bring? Perhaps someone will develop a computerized system that proves all the naysayers wrong - who here could count how many times that has happened in history?</p><p> </p><p>This still does not solve the problem. Today, you go to a coin dealer, and there is you and the dealer - and two different opinions on a particular coin's grade. Introduce an electronic grading system, then you will have three - just like today. It doesn't change anything.</p><p> </p><p>You might as well introduce AU58.54363000000 - but maybe people will crack it open, because they might be able to acheive an AU58.55102000000 - of course, that's on a 57 point match which provides a 98.9% reliability up to three places past the decimal, which is nothing compared to an AU58.54363000000 graded on a 84 point match - it has a 99.4% reliability at four places past the decimal!</p><p> </p><p>Either way, since I don't collect slabs, but I think you have to focus on the problem before you apply a presumed solution.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rick, post: 70415, member: 1235"]who knows what the future will bring? Perhaps someone will develop a computerized system that proves all the naysayers wrong - who here could count how many times that has happened in history? This still does not solve the problem. Today, you go to a coin dealer, and there is you and the dealer - and two different opinions on a particular coin's grade. Introduce an electronic grading system, then you will have three - just like today. It doesn't change anything. You might as well introduce AU58.54363000000 - but maybe people will crack it open, because they might be able to acheive an AU58.55102000000 - of course, that's on a 57 point match which provides a 98.9% reliability up to three places past the decimal, which is nothing compared to an AU58.54363000000 graded on a 84 point match - it has a 99.4% reliability at four places past the decimal! Either way, since I don't collect slabs, but I think you have to focus on the problem before you apply a presumed solution.[/QUOTE]
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