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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2012799, member: 112&quot;]Following that line of thinking why not just take it to 2 grades - circulated and uncirculated ? I mean if you&#039;re going to do it why not go all the way ?</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a couple of major problems with the grading system, but I&#039;d wager that most people don&#039;t even know what the problems are. </p><p><br /></p><p>First and foremost problem - there is no system, there are several of them. And a lot of individuals don&#039;t even follow those, preferring instead to follow own individual system. And the TPGs don&#039;t even follow their own written and published systems. And only 1 TPG even has a written and published system. And as long as there are several different systems, and nobody follows them, there can never be any level of consistency.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second problem - trust, plain and simple. Trust is how and why TPG grading came into existence. First of all people did not and still do not trust their own abilities, opting instead to trust the ability of the TPGs. And for a while that worked. But over time that level of trust in their abilities began to be questioned. And when enough people questioned it, along comes another party, CAC, to grade the graders. Plain and simple that&#039;s what they do. And eventually few will trust them either. Signs of it already being so are evident in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what to do, what to do ? First of all, establish a grading system, 1, not 6 or 8 or 10, that everybody, stress everybody, follows. You don&#039;t even have to all agree with it, you just have to follow it for the purposes of grading. Secondly, make the grading system static, unchangeable. Thirdly, base the system on the condition of the coin and only the condition of the coin. In other words things like rarity, pedigree, value, will never, ever, have any bearing on the grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>You could take the basic system already established by the ANA, apply those few things to it, and you would have a system that works. And one that works far, far, better than what we have now. Would this system be perfect ? No of course not for there could never be a perfect system. But it would at least be as good as we could make it. And there would be a much, much, higher level of consistency.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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