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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4500946, member: 101855"]It would if they would apply the standards consistently, but they don't.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the grading scale, most of the controversies are in the grades from 61 to 70 anyway. The 60 grade is used so infrequently that it really does not matter. As for the circulated grades, you see much less fussing and fuming over them. That’s probably because they are not “investment grade” coins for the people think of coins as investments. </p><p><br /></p><p>If these people got their precious 100 point grading system, I would imagine that 90 to 100 would still be the Mint State grades. If you expand it to say 80 to 100 that would be 21 grades which would lay everything open to more controversy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4500946, member: 101855"]It would if they would apply the standards consistently, but they don't. As for the grading scale, most of the controversies are in the grades from 61 to 70 anyway. The 60 grade is used so infrequently that it really does not matter. As for the circulated grades, you see much less fussing and fuming over them. That’s probably because they are not “investment grade” coins for the people think of coins as investments. If these people got their precious 100 point grading system, I would imagine that 90 to 100 would still be the Mint State grades. If you expand it to say 80 to 100 that would be 21 grades which would lay everything open to more controversy.[/QUOTE]
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