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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3250633, member: 76863&quot;]I&#039;m not.&nbsp; I&#039;m pushing back against the claim that there are no standards that some people keep pushing or that the standards are completely random.&nbsp; There are standards, there have always been standards since coin collecting started, and there will continue to be standards in the future. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ever since coin collecting started thousands of years ago there have been standards and ways of evaluating quality/grading them and throughout the entire time they have continued to change and evolve. </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of people pushing these ideas that newer people seem to buy into that its all just whatever they feel like and there&#039;s no standards learned to grade decades ago and just want things to remain static for what they know.&nbsp; I would be concerned if grading hadn&#039;t changed at all in the last 30-50 years, that just means we stopped learning and evolving and that&#039;s a scary thought to just get set in one way and do it that way forever. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you aren&#039;t constantly re-educating yourself, relearning, and sharpening your skills you become irrelevant and everything has already passed you by.&nbsp; You say having to re-educate yourself like it&#039;s a bad thing yet it isn&#039;t, it&#039;s exactly what you should be doing anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yes grading will continue to change overtime.&nbsp; As for hairlines and everything else it really is you know it when you see it.&nbsp; How visible are they, how much to do they jump, what other redeeming qualities does the coin have that may save it ect.&nbsp; With gold it will even vary by the series, is it a normal gold coin or one of the Indians where everything is flipped ect.&nbsp; Then you have the branch mints as well when it comes to gold like C and D.&nbsp; There is&nbsp; A LOT of specialization in the older gold world with a lot of varying qualities of minting.&nbsp; It can be very easy to get mint issues confused with what would be a details coin if it was a normal silver coin when someone isn&#039;t familiar with the nuances of the various gold series[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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