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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Randy Abercrombie, post: 7774528, member: 92655&quot;]I’ll admit I am old school. I been doing commercial construction estimating since the 1980’s. I still to this day do it with pocket scales and printed blueprints while the young bucks in my office do it on laptops and IPads.</p><p><br /></p><p>Evaluating a coin is a process of judgment based upon strict long held standards. Those standards have somewhat been compromised over the years and that has created chaos. How often do we see MS70 “first day of issue” ASE’s posted here that are far from perfect? Judgment has been compromised by the large corporate submitters and it has trickled down…. Yet, price points in the market are based upon the judgment of the TPG label and I have long been a vocal opponent of the damage it has done to our “hobby”.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, a computer does not have the ability to judge the strike quality of a late 18th century press. Only a human can discern that difference. The problem here is humans are compromised by the power of the dollar as has been our hobby. AI grading would be a further travesty to our hobby. One that just might send me off to find a new passion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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