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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 408106, member: 15309&quot;]Eddie,</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that you want to change the definition of technical grading because you have been practicing market grading since before the term market grading was created.&nbsp; The simple fact is that what you are calling technical grading is actually market grading.&nbsp; Technical grading assigns a grade based upon the surface preservation, ignoring luster, strike, and eye appeal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mike,</p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree with the fact that technical grading can&#039;t include all of the mint state grades.&nbsp; Simply grade the surface preservation of the coin on a scale from 0-10 (worst to best).&nbsp; If you give the coin a 3 it is an MS63.</p><p><br /></p><p>NPCoin</p><p><br /></p><p>Although I understand your position, I don&#039;t think it is very realistic.&nbsp; What would happen to the coin market if coin prices were not related to the grade of the coin.&nbsp; I see people posting &quot;you overpaid&quot; all the time on coin forums.&nbsp; Collectors seem obsessed with knowing that they either got a good deal or a bad deal and equate getting a good deal with being an astute collector.&nbsp; If the price does not relate to the grade, price guides would either not exist or would be meaningless, and it would kill the hobby in my opinion.&nbsp; Shady dealers would gouge people unmercifully and in the end we would all suffer.</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears that your problem with market grading is that the assigned grade is cumbersome because you don&#039;t know which elements of grading were used to determine the assigned grade.&nbsp; This is a very valid concern that can only be determined by examining and grading the coin for yourself.&nbsp; However, I really don&#039;t think that using technical grading with remarks to describe the luster, strike, and eye appeal is the answer.&nbsp; The reason most collectors like market grading is because most collectors are actually interested in luster, strike, and eye appeal when purchasing coins.&nbsp; Additionally, they want to know how much a coin should cost.&nbsp; If we used technical grading, the collector would have no idea how much to pay for a coin that is graded MS65 but would market grade at MS63 or MS67.</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears to me that most collectors problem with market grading is the inconsistency that accompanies it.&nbsp; I think just assigning an numerical grade to the coin is a bit ambiguous as well and often times would like to know how the TPG arrived at the assigned grade.&nbsp; If the TPG&#039;s actually used an actual formula like this one:<a href="http://www.coingrading.com/grade1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coingrading.com/grade1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coingrading.com/grade1.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>they could post the number on the slab of the coin and you would know both the technical grade and how the TPG arrived at the market grade.&nbsp; Simply post on the slab the P, S, L, &amp; E numbers for both sides on the insert.&nbsp; FWIW, I don&#039;t agree with the grading scale proposed in this example, but I do believe that a system similar to this could work to make both the technical graders and market graders happy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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