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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 494225, member: 15309&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>You absolutely can compare a Cadillac to a Chevy.&nbsp; The Caddy is better which explains why it costs more money. Regarding coins from different years and mints, IMO,&nbsp; they are equal. They have the same design and should all look the same.&nbsp; They only look different because one mint did a better job producing the coins than the other.&nbsp; You call it apples to oranges (or other apples), I call it accountability.&nbsp; I can look at a Peace Dollar and make in independent judgment on the quality of the strike regardless of the mint or date.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I respect your opinion Doug, but in this case you are making this much more difficult than it really is.&nbsp; What I am saying is simply compare all of the strikes from every date and mint to determine what the weak, average, and good strikes look like for the series.&nbsp; If a particular date and mint produced weak strike coins, the grades of those coins would be correctly limited to the lower MS grades.&nbsp; It really is not that far of a stretch.&nbsp; In fact, if they graded that way in the beginning, you would find people who would vehemently oppose grading strike independently for each year and mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, just because the so called experts think this is the best way to grade strike does not mean that they are correct.&nbsp; Everyone with an opinion should have the opportunity to have there opinion heard and actually considered before being summarily dismissed.</p><p><br /></p><p>We completely understand that you disagree with us on this issue, but by no means does that make you (or us) right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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