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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;charley, post: 25515751, member: 5372&quot;]The metric &quot;system&quot; of numismatic grading, is established on a false premise of judgement of superiority. </p><p><br /></p><p>This decimal system, or metrics, was developed for the purpose of measuring metre and litre and gram...or substitute the words weight and length and capacity if preferred. </p><p><br /></p><p>None of these &#039;metric&quot; approaches have a relation to numismatic grading of wear/originality/ eye appeal/rarity/quality or opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sheldon, and the latest decimal experiment by NGC (and it is nothing new and has been tried before) is casting different types of lures in the water to achieve recognition as a superb fisherman, when it is simply a monetary bastardization of the commodity.</p><p><br /></p><p>The latest marketing ploy...and that is all it is... is to explore the possibility of a profit center that may be a competitive answer to JA and his definitive improvements for the collector, introduced by him in 2007 to combat the egregious decline of numismatic grading. It is the future, and is here and will prevail over the present failure of TPGs that have concentrated on &quot;market grading&quot; for profit, instead of quality grading for the collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I understand Sheldon and the purpose and basis of development. In its way, it too was and is a marketing method to counteract greed. It serves well even today for that purpose.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, does any coin collector believe that a finite explanation/definition of a decimal difference between, say, a 96 and 94 is obtainable and would not produce a quagmire of quality? Then why not the silliness of a 5.0 vs. a 5.2 comic grade?&nbsp; I refer all to the philatelic experiment. We have hands on knowledge how that went...a system also bastardized to monetarily exploit collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Adapting it to a CAC/CACG Model of quality would not benefit the collector. It would be profit exploitation, and that is all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fire away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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