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<p>[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3297041, member: 46237"]I agree with the above suggestions, though adding more finalizers will add to cost. I'm sure they have weighed the cost of staff versus fixing mistakes and accept it as the cost of doing business.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your underlying assumption is that it matters if the coin is AU or MS. I'm saying that mode of thinking is fundamentally flawed, and that only eye appeal is relevant. I would argue the flip side; that the AU58 in your example should have a grade of 63 (no MS prefix) and the MS60 should have a grade of perhaps 55 to 60 (again no prefix). The AU or MS prefixes complicate grading and are a barrier for people to simply look at it as a seamless quality scale based on eye appeal. Much simpler. Again, wear is not special. It's just another impairment to eye appeal. We should stop treating it so differently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3297041, member: 46237"]I agree with the above suggestions, though adding more finalizers will add to cost. I'm sure they have weighed the cost of staff versus fixing mistakes and accept it as the cost of doing business. Your underlying assumption is that it matters if the coin is AU or MS. I'm saying that mode of thinking is fundamentally flawed, and that only eye appeal is relevant. I would argue the flip side; that the AU58 in your example should have a grade of 63 (no MS prefix) and the MS60 should have a grade of perhaps 55 to 60 (again no prefix). The AU or MS prefixes complicate grading and are a barrier for people to simply look at it as a seamless quality scale based on eye appeal. Much simpler. Again, wear is not special. It's just another impairment to eye appeal. We should stop treating it so differently.[/QUOTE]
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