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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 3297670, member: 78244&quot;]How about this?</p><p><br /></p><p>Condition: a coin’s state of preservation.</p><p>Grade: A numerical or symbolic notation to easily communicate the coin’s condition.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The only problem I see is that collectors don’t want to think for themselves and automatically assume that a 58 HAS to be worth less than higher grades. Graders at the TPGs knew better, and decided to think for these collectors and initiated market grading, creating a hot mess to which there was no standard.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the world of ancient and medieval coins, collectors have to learn how to spot fakes/tooling themselves, and they need to learn what is typical/premium for a type. There are no numbers used in the grade because it is pointless. No one cares if there is a touch of wear or if one coin has more contact mark than the other. A nice coin is recognized as a nice coin, and its value reflects this. A premium coin is recognized as such, and its value gets the appropriate premium because the collector themselves recognize it.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you commoditize something like US coins and bring in TPGs, then you take the thinking out of collecting, and you have few collectors who recognize that an AU-68 is more valuable than an MS-62.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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