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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 7852966, member: 46237&quot;]I posit that the reason collectors want technical grading is because they grew up being told that technical grading is the way you grade coins, and that identifying&nbsp; the presence of even the most minute traces of wear is paramount.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you started looking at coins without the bias of technical grading you could with some eye training arrange coins in increasing quality and value, and in doing so, you would discover that wear (while important) would not be the primary factor in determining a coin&#039;s position on this scale. You would also observe that you would have a less complicated linear scale denoting quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every time I bring this topic up, I see a lot of the &quot;this is the way its done&quot; defense.&nbsp; Progress is made by taking a step back from the way things are done and revisiting the possibility of a way it can be done better.</p><p><br /></p><p>Realize that TPGs &quot;grossly overgrading&quot; their coins is subjective. You&#039;re judging market graded coins as if they were technical graded. I would say a lot of coins that technical graders would consider to be overgraded are still undergraded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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