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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2296727, member: 24314&quot;]Doug is making the case for old technical grading.&nbsp; It is easy to teach someone this is what wear looks like (from whatever the cause) so the coin is AU.&nbsp; Now let the professionals assign a value to it (in many cases high&nbsp; MS).&nbsp; Then grading the AU/MS line would be a &quot;black &amp; white&quot; decision that 99% would agree on.&nbsp; The other 1% are blind!&nbsp; You have told Doug nice and tidy, perfectly clean.&nbsp; Amen!&nbsp; IMO This could have been the perfect grading system with highly precise and accurate results.&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunately, the developers of technical grading were not coin dealers.&nbsp; In their &quot;Ivory Tower World&quot; they did not take eye-appeal into consideration because TG was only a way to ID the coin - not put a value on it!&nbsp; That&#039;s one reason it is not used in the market place.&nbsp; However, it is still a useful method you teach beginners how to start as conservative graders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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