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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 4606344, member: 77413&quot;]I believe the biggest advances would come in two areas.</p><ol> <li>Eliminate the AU / MS boundary completely. <br /> <br /> Instead, give a score for “surface condition”. If the coin is well struck, free from excessive planchet flaws, hairlining, dings and dents, <b>AND WEAR</b>, then it grades at the top of the scale. <br /> <br /> A baggy MS 63 and a super-nice AU could grade the same, since one is less perfect because of wear and the other is less perfect because of contact marks. After all, we often have trouble distinguishing between weak strike vs. worn dies vs. handling vs. cabinet friction, so just get rid of those distinctions and just grade the surface you see.<br /> <br /> </li> <li>Rethink everything about Details grading. <br /> <br /> It lacks all subtlety and buries useful information about what is wrong with the coin. It’s just black and white, with no shades of gray.<br /> <br /> If you have a coin that would be an MS66-67 but also has a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/whats-a-wheel-mark-and-where-is-mine.342411/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/whats-a-wheel-mark-and-where-is-mine.342411/">very light wheel mark</a>, or a tiny <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/do-you-ever-buy-details-coins.345209/page-2#post-3662196" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/do-you-ever-buy-details-coins.345209/page-2#post-3662196">wrapping machine mark</a> buried near a rim, or has a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gtg-1924-standing-liberty.330730/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gtg-1924-standing-liberty.330730/">tiny bit of dip residue that didn’t get rinsed off</a>, why trash it all the way down to Details, which most people price as MS60? <br /> <br /> I have superb Details coins from all three of these categories that have left a lot of CT members puzzled trying to find the problem. I would definitely prefer to have the grade remain intact, with a separate category for Degree of Damage, where each of these could get a 5 out of 100 to show how minor it is. (5 would mean: The grader saw it, but you probably won’t. 95 of 100 would mean: What kind of coin did you say this was supposed to be?)<br /> <br /> That would be a better service for both the buyer and seller to make their own decisions about how much effect the condition should have on the desirability, and hence, value.</li> </ol><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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