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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 658897, member: 2100&quot;]I don&#039;t think the vast majority of even experienced collectors would be in agreement upon the grade for any coin. To be honest, my opinion (which is in agreement with results of some small scale sampling/testing) is that even the &quot;professional&quot; graders do not agree anywhere near as often as I believe they should. Even the same grading house can vary substantially regarding multiple submissions of the same coin. I don&#039;t think the current system is all that usable, especially by the general collecting populace, but we are stuck with it. To further break it down is ludicrous and will reduce the already poor level of grading consistency. In such situations arise, I ask myself who is in favor for such change and why. Historically, such changes are promoted by the folks who stand to profit by the implementation. The collectors I know would not really care if their coin was an MS64 or an MS64.5 (and I don&#039;t think most collectors would be able to tell the difference between them anyway), but I imagine a dealer would have considerable interest in a half point higher grade. At this point in time, I see an expansion to a decimal point grading system merely as a scheme to relieve the general collecting populace of more of their hard earned dollars and nothing more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if decimal point grading were adopted, I do not believe for a second that suddenly everyone will be in agreement on the assigned grade. All of the prior issues and arguments would still be there, modified a bit perhaps, but they would still be there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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