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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3297795, member: 46237&quot;]Why should collectors learn the existing system when it is flawed and confusing? Can you think of another collectible market where you can have something that grades lower on the appropriate scale, but is of higher quality and value?</p><p><br /></p><p>The nonsensical 1-58 and 60-70 dual scale creates problems like determining whether or not high point rub is circulation wear or cabinet rub. But it doesn&#039;t matter. I agree that wear is wear. It does not matter where high point rub came from, because it does not especially matter if there is a touch of wear on the coin. <i>Long time collectors have simply become conditioned to believe that it matters.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>But...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Wear is not special. It is simply another form of surface impairment that affects eye appeal.</b> In the ancients market we see a good, widely-accepted example of this understanding within numismatics, and this philosophy is reflected in the general rejection of slabbing by ancients collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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