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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 25515182, member: 4626&quot;]It seems opinions were mixed when this was first announced, at least based on my not very scientific evaluation: reading the YouTube comments on the video I watched announcing it.&nbsp; I&#039;m very much in the &quot;if it ain&#039;t broke, don&#039;t fix it&quot; camp.&nbsp; Putting a new system out brings the problem of not being able to easily compare grades that have been in use for over 50 years.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see how it improves things, and I don&#039;t see trying to bring over the comic book collectors into coins is that necessary.&nbsp; The &quot;bring more people into the hobby&quot; argument I always thought was strange, because the hobby is not endangered; coin collecting is almost as old as coins themselves, and there&#039;s no risk of it going away anytime soon (and if less people are collecting, it just means less demand, so I can get my coins cheaper).&nbsp; I quickly decided that whatever else anyone else was doing, I would refuse to buy any coins graded this way, and would not submit any coins graded this way.&nbsp; Again, not a scientific survey, but last coin show I literally couldn&#039;t find a single seller selling coins graded on the 10-point system.&nbsp; Even on eBay it&#039;s hard to find any, and they&#039;ll sell anything.&nbsp; For the most part those established in the hobby seemed to have mostly rejected it, and good thing IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know this is exclusive to NGC and even then it&#039;s only an option (you can still choose to have them use the old scale if you submit coins to them).&nbsp; Based on the lack of much prevalence in the market, it&#039;s safe to say the experiment has pretty much failed in terms of how &quot;market acceptable&quot; the new system is, but NGC hasn&#039;t officially abandoned it, yet.&nbsp; It&#039;s probably inevitable they will eventually though.&nbsp; If people aren&#039;t buying something, eventually you have to give up trying to sell it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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