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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2464652, member: 59677&quot;]Interesting... the fonts are nothing alike. Nor does the baseball card slab have a hologram. There is no date, although it&#039;s obviously no earlier than 1989...</p><p><br /></p><p>I would **GUESS** two different companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Compugrade started and failed in 1991, but the patent dates from 1990.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US4899392A/en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US4899392A/en" rel="nofollow">https://patents.google.com/patent/US4899392A/en</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Claim #1 of the Compugrade patent:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>1. An automated method for objectively assigning a numismatic grade to a test coin of particular issue, said method comprising the steps of:</p><p>(a) electronically identifying and locating each detracting mark on one of the obverse and reverse sides of the test coin;</p><p>(b) electronically measuring the surface area of each identified detracting mark;</p><p>(c) utilizing computer means to automatically assign to each identified detracting mark a quantity proportional to the detracting significance thereof based upon the location and measured surface area of the mark on said one side of the test coin;</p><p>(d) automatically summing said assigned quantities using said computer means to arrive at an amount representative of all identified detracting marks on said one side of the test coin;</p><p>(e) automatically correlating said summed amount into a numismatic grade for said one side of the test coin with reference to a preexisting computer database of scaled values representative of numismatic grades; and</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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