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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 5128423, member: 105571&quot;]Just to clarify for anyone that might be confused about my meaning - I am not advocating going to a continuous number system nor changing from the 1 to 70 Sheldon number system.&nbsp; I am merely questioning the continued use of language descriptors and also the numerical grade range disparities between language range descriptors.&nbsp; Neither makes any sense to me nor seems to serve any useful function.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] probably has a big part of the answer with his &quot;it&#039;s tradition&quot; answer and I agree that&#039;s a big part of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=89213]@Inspector43[/USER], I have to say that describing the grading system as nothing but an ego trip is somewhat myopic.&nbsp; For example, used cars (other than Ferraris) are graded not primarily for the purpose of inflating egos but to serve the purpose of creating a viable market.&nbsp; Does ego act in coin collecting?&nbsp; Duh, does a bear, etc.&nbsp; But ego acts in all human endeavors.&nbsp; Nevertheless, every market must have a means of establishing value. </p><p><br /></p><p>Even a commodity like toilet paper has to have a means of establishing a value differentiation between products even if it&#039;s only &quot;Our TP Super has smaller and less jagged wood chips&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The days of just saying a coin is EF or Choice Gem BU are long gone, except in the raw market of EBay and they only use language descriptors because I understand EBay prohibits sellers from putting grades on raw coins.&nbsp; You will not find a slabbed U.S. coin from the big four without a numeric grade, except for Details grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>So back to my question.&nbsp; What purpose does the language descriptor now serve that the numeric grade does not do more simply and less ambiguously?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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