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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4146405, member: 82322&quot;]Grades are used for more than bragging rights and prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use grades to filter catalogs.&nbsp; When I look at an online auction catalog I look at all of the Greek coins but only look at the Roman coins that are AU/MS or have a star or &quot;fine style&quot; designation.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I was coding a tool such as OCRE or CoinProject the software should use the grade to pick candidates for the exemplar coin to appear for a particular catalog number.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I was doing scientific analysis of hoards to estimate ancient weight standards I would expect the low grade coins to be a few percent lighter than the high grade ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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