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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mark Feld, post: 646151, member: 11467&quot;]I believe, that because each coin is unique, grading sets have very severe practical limitations. You can spend all day trying to match a given coin to one in a set, but there will always be differences, subjectivity, biases and inconsistency involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Allowances are made for differences among various dates and mints. So, for example, if you have a date/mint that is typically weakly struck, a high mint state grade can/will still be given to an example which is lacking a full strike. On the other hand, if a certain date and mint is normally very well struck, a weakly struck one can/will be penalized.</p><p><br /></p><p>And like it or not - I don&#039;t! - the grading companies are definitely more forgiving when grading especially rare/valuable coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Doug, they couldn&#039;t possibly (and don&#039;t) have grading sets like that for most series. The coins simply don&#039;t exist for many dates and/or grades that would need to be included. And even if they did, the cost would be beyond prohibitive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add: What they probably do have is grading sets for major series by type, but certainly not by date and mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a link from a 2007 article about the PCGS grading set. <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=5114&amp;universeid=313" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=5114&amp;universeid=313" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=5114&amp;universeid=313</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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