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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 13536, member: 68&quot;]When you get right down to it collectors are afraid of real standards.&nbsp; The only possible standards that can be applied to something which varies in so many important ways would result in grades for each of the ways in which it varies.&nbsp; This would make current price guides obsolete. The first question of newbies with a potentially valuable coin is never about history, grade, or the coin&#039;s importance, it is always &quot;how much is it worth?&quot;.&nbsp; Even most more advanced collectors balk at not being able to look up a coin&#039;s value despite the fact that the coin will likely trade on its merits and the price guide is nearly meaningless.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s ironic that the only reason to grade a coin at all is to be able to describe it to someone yet collectors generally hate the idea of a descriptive or objective grading system which could actually give someone a good idea of what the coin looks like.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps such a system would be acceptable if there were a formula to translate the grade into a &quot;net grade&quot; so people could still look up the value and still not be able to really know the condition nor the likely selling price of the coin.&nbsp; The biggest problem with adding a net grade is that it would severely inhibit the formation of a real and usefull price guide but at least we&#039;d get a grading system which would actually grade the condition of the coin rather than it&#039;s price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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