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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 845192, member: 112"]No argument Matt. But for all we know those issues have been addressed. I for one can not imagine them going ahead with it if it had not been addressed. I mean they've obviously been planning this for months, probably the past year or longer. Do you really think that a company like PCGS would do something like this if they had not tested the technology ? Believe me, I have no love for the company. My feelings about them should be obvious to all who have read my comments and articles about them over the years. So I am not defending them in any way. Nor am I saying that I in favor of their new "thing". But, the technology for a machine to be able to distinguish one coin from another has existed for some time. And that is the one thing that I have no doubt at all that machines can do better than humans when it comes to coins. No, I still do not think that machines can grade coins. It requires too much abstract thought. But identify them, tell one from the other ? You bet. I can see a machine being able to do that all day long. And do it in a fraction of the time that it would take a human to do it. And yes Matt, I do believe that I could identify a given 1880-S Morgan from among all others. It would require good quality pics of the coin I was searching for, a good glass, and one heck of a lot of time. But I have no doubt at all that I could do it.[/QUOTE]