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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 4602708, member: 15309"]I have often said on this forum that a coin can be graded multiple times, with different grades, and each time still be graded correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many times have you looked at a coin and thought, that coin is high end MS64 or low end MS65? If you think of each numerical grade incrementally from MS6X.0 to MS6X.9 and then consider that a coin will never have a perfect number, but rather a range of grades about a half grade long, then a coin could easily be graded MS64 one day, MS65 the next, and still be correct both days. We assign a specific grade, but in actuality, the coin has a grading range. So when we run into a coin with an MS64.8-MS65.3 range, we then are forced to decide which grade to choose. Often that choice depends upon personal preferences of the grader.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps if we shifted our mindset from each coin having an exact grade to each coin having a correct grading range, we will in a position to better understand and accept the inherent subjectivity in grading.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 4602708, member: 15309"]I have often said on this forum that a coin can be graded multiple times, with different grades, and each time still be graded correctly. How many times have you looked at a coin and thought, that coin is high end MS64 or low end MS65? If you think of each numerical grade incrementally from MS6X.0 to MS6X.9 and then consider that a coin will never have a perfect number, but rather a range of grades about a half grade long, then a coin could easily be graded MS64 one day, MS65 the next, and still be correct both days. We assign a specific grade, but in actuality, the coin has a grading range. So when we run into a coin with an MS64.8-MS65.3 range, we then are forced to decide which grade to choose. Often that choice depends upon personal preferences of the grader. Perhaps if we shifted our mindset from each coin having an exact grade to each coin having a correct grading range, we will in a position to better understand and accept the inherent subjectivity in grading.[/QUOTE]
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