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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 494029, member: 112&quot;]The question was answered Paul, numerous times. But you are apparently unwilling to accept the answer. The answer is quite simple - coins from different dates and mints cannot be compared because they are not equal - and you cannot compare two things to each to each other if they are not equal. That is the answer. And that is why we have the system we have.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have tried to use analogies but that doesn&#039;t seem to work. But I&#039;ll try one more - can you compare a Cadillac to a Chevy ? A 1957 Chrysler 300 to a 2007 Chrysler 300 ? No, you can&#039;t. They are a different as day and night - and you can&#039;t compare day to night either. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now you can take 2 different 2007 Chrysler 300&#039;s and compare to each other because they are equal. And you can compare 2 Cadillacs of the same year to each other, or 2 Chevy&#039;s to each other - but you can never compare a Cadillac to a Chevy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same thing with coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what you are proposing would not be more strict, it would be less strict. For if you were to define what the average strike of a Morgan dollar is - and then grade all Morgans based on that - what you would find out is that all those 65&#039;s would become 66&#039;s and 67&#039;s. And we&#039;d be buried in 68&#039;s. For the average strike of a Morgan dollar is really quite poor.</p><p><br /></p><p>And this bit about computers, people think machines can do a lot more than they really can do. But some of the simplest thing there are - a computer cannot do. For example - to grade coins a computer would have to be capable of complex pattern recognition now wouldn&#039;t it. But do you know that even the most advanced computer when using patter recognition cannot even tell a B from an 8. It is known as the B/8 problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>So how in blue blazes is a computer ever going to be able to grade a coin when it cannot do something that a 4 year old can do in his sleep !</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading coins requires the ability to think - computers cannot think. They can only compute.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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