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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1943559, member: 26302&quot;]Well I was assuming things like outright damage were excluded Doug. I was considering more wear versus non-wear issues like soft strike, bag marks, etc. To me I look at the coin holistically. I am a coin collector, so I appreciate the beauty of the coin and want the best one possible. In that light, I am looking for a coin with the most details on it that are supposed to be there. I really do not care if 10% of the details are missing because of wear, bag marks, soft strike, worn dies, etc. I know what a perfect coin could be, and judge a coin based upon how &quot;imperfect&quot; it is because of these things.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I meant about &quot;wear is worst damage&quot; is wear AUTOMATICALLY reduces the grade by over 10 points. No bag mark, soft strike, defective flan, worn dies, or other things AUTOMATICALLY deduct over 10 points. That is the error, to say a little wear will be punished much more severely than any other defect. It would be like grading coins like a car, and saying only a car with less than 20,000 miles can be in the &quot;like new&quot; category, and any car with more miles than that at best can be labelled &quot;fair&quot;. Well, maybe some rental car shows up with 19,000 miles, been rode hard and put away wet, but none of that matters because BY DEFINITION that car MUST have a higher &quot;grade&quot; than any car with 20,001 miles even if driven on Sundays by a little old lady. Making some arbitrary cutoff that ONLY miles is the consideration between those relative grades is silly, right? Put a beat to hell, ugly, tore up MS 60 Morgan next to a pretty, very slightly worn Morgan and please explain to me why BY DEFINITION the nasty coin MUST be a higher grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>Its just stupid and about time we fixed this bad decision made in the 1800&#039;s. Just go to a numerical grading system and forget about any definition of &quot;uncirculated&quot; versus &quot;circulated&quot;. Its irrelevant. Total details remaining is the only sane criteria to judge by.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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