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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 87100, member: 4381&quot;]There is something inherently wrong in this.&nbsp; How can you ever know the value of what your buying?&nbsp; There should be nothing inherently difficult about grading a coin (authentication is a whole other ball of wax).&nbsp; If there is, then there is something inherently wrong with the hobby.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>the problem is definitions, not grading.&nbsp; Grading should be self evident and a 12 year old should be able to do it.&nbsp; the trouble is that there is/was no standard.&nbsp; There was/is just a market where nicer coins get more money in the coin baazar.&nbsp; Then so much money started to ride on the grades that a standardization was looked for.&nbsp; But is there really a stardardization?&nbsp; Can a computer grade a coin based on just plain facts?&nbsp; That is the question and the wiggle room.&nbsp; The problem is that a MS 65 and a MS 66 can have a 10 fold difference in asking price.&nbsp; IMO, there is not a 10 fold difference in grade betweent he coins so the 10 fold difference in the cost is very very suspect.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I collect Comic Books I have similar problems (but if gets even more complicated do to the fact that paper decomposes rapidly).&nbsp; A corner is nicked to the degree of a pin point, without exageration, and 20 thousand dollars is lost on the book.&nbsp; Its a good reason why I NEVER buy mint comic books.&nbsp; Who can afford to loose that much capital for an uncontrollable event when handling the book, even with extreme care?</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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