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Message:: [QUOTE="kanga, post: 654247, member: 9270"]I disagree.US coin collectors understand it quite well.And to varying degrees, so does the rest of the world.They may not like it, but at least they understand it. As good as the metric system is (and I agree that it's far superior to the English system), it's not what the general populace in the US understands.A high percentage have no instinctive feeling for it.The disruption in converting from English to metric would seriously harm the US economy, and at the moment we're doing quite well at that without additional help. IMO the same arguments apply to a metric grading system, but just at a much lower level of significance.  I've already alluded to the fact that the learning curve would steep and would throw US coin collecting into turmoil for a number of years (5 to 10 would be my guess).This disruption would only make real sense if computer grading were also implemented, and we've pretty much determined that that is not feasible at this point in time. And how would you break down the 100 scale into the various verbal descriptors?What range would be considered Uncirculated? Or AU? Or XF? Etc.Do away with the verbals? Sorry, I want to know where Unc starts.Heck, we can't even get rid of BU, Choice BU, Gem BU, and all the variations on those terms. And what is to be done with all the coins already slabbed?Who would foot the bill for reslabbing with the new numbers?And, no, doing away with slabbing is NOT an option. A metric grading system would have worked if it was used at the onset for numerical grading.Same as metric measurements.Or the metric clock!But, alas, we're pretty much stuck with what we've got.[/QUOTE]

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