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<p>[QUOTE="davidh, post: 494508, member: 15062"]OK, I've completely lost track of who is on whose side here and can no longer follow the arguments.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am in favor of grading against an ideal standard. If a coin, for <u><u>any</u></u> reason doesn't meet that ideal then it should be downgraded.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I understand correctly, others are for grading against the average that a particular mint put out for the year in question. Thus a weakly struck coin would grade well if most other similar (date and mint) coins were also weakly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not totally sure of the definitions but I assume that my beliefs represent Technical grading while the other's beliefs (as stated above) represent Market grading. Or is that a different subject altogether?</p><p><br /></p><p>I laid out my thoughts on the subject in post #48 of this thread but got no comments, so I guess I'm in the minority, but I really don't understand what the big controversy here has been. Can someone boil it down for me?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="davidh, post: 494508, member: 15062"]OK, I've completely lost track of who is on whose side here and can no longer follow the arguments. I am in favor of grading against an ideal standard. If a coin, for [U][U]any[/U][/U] reason doesn't meet that ideal then it should be downgraded. If I understand correctly, others are for grading against the average that a particular mint put out for the year in question. Thus a weakly struck coin would grade well if most other similar (date and mint) coins were also weakly struck. I'm not totally sure of the definitions but I assume that my beliefs represent Technical grading while the other's beliefs (as stated above) represent Market grading. Or is that a different subject altogether? I laid out my thoughts on the subject in post #48 of this thread but got no comments, so I guess I'm in the minority, but I really don't understand what the big controversy here has been. Can someone boil it down for me?[/QUOTE]
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