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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Catbert, post: 877376, member: 12718&quot;]I came across this &quot;rant&quot; while surfing a well respected dealer&#039;s website. I commend him for taking a position and trusting his own judgement. While I know this topic has been discussed many times, I like his thinking on the matter. Do you agree?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Will this be the end of the grading problem...of course not. As I said, grading is an OPINION and every coin is DIFFERENT. So we can soon take all of the MS65 &quot;+&quot; 1881-S Morgan Dollars and line them up from best to worst and we will see that they are all different and all deserve slightly different grades...so in the year 2525, if man is still alive, we will grade a coin MS65.739265. So now we will have low end CAC&#039;s and high end CAC&#039;s. We will have low end &quot;+&quot; coins and high end &quot;+&quot; coins. We will have stunning high end coins with CAC stickers and over graded and unattractive coins with CAC stickers. We will see amazing top end coins with &quot;+&quot; designations and average, unapealing coins with &quot;+&quot; designations. Why? Because my opinion is different than your opinion and our opinions are different than CAC&#039;s opinions and CAC&#039;s opinions are going to be different than PCGS and NGC&#039;s opinion.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Just as CAC has not solved any problems inherit in the grading of coins, neither will the addition of a &quot;+&quot; designation. It WILL give all the dealers and collectors something else to beeyatch about...&quot;Why did THAT coin receive a &quot;+&quot; designation and THIS one didn&#039;t??!!??&quot; It will also give those so inclined a reason to resubmit coins to PCGS one more time and allow PCGS to receive grading fees for those resubmissions one more time...</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>And after every coin has been sliced and diced and &quot;Plus&#039;d&quot; and &quot;CAC&#039;d&quot; and &quot;Star&#039;d&quot; and &quot;CAM&#039;d&quot;, we will still have no idea what the coin actually looks like. How well is it struck, is it original or dipped, does it have significant contact marks or hairlines. Is it original and beautifully toned or original and butt ugly? How is the luster...non-existant, weak, good, strong, intense, amazing...etc. So it gets right back to the coin...every one is different and every coin must be evaluated on its own merits.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.aprci.com/SpecialDeals.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aprci.com/SpecialDeals.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.aprci.com/SpecialDeals.asp</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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