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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 95591, member: 2761&quot;]I think NGC has done a great job improving their slabs.&nbsp; I think they are the toughest material in the market and the hardest to break out.&nbsp; I wish they used a black backgroud instead of white as white will reflect all adjacent colors.&nbsp; Black is absent of color and absorbs all light energy, therefore nothing is reflected back in or directly around the coin.&nbsp; Anyways, Red Lincolns and White Morgans look great in the Intercept Shield holder (black) compared to white.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still believe computer/technical grading is a <u>near</u> reality.&nbsp; We have laser scanners that can scan within 10 microns.&nbsp; You can assign digital value points to x, y, and z data and compare it to a given database of x, y, and z data points. The delta values (change of) can be measured against.&nbsp; The greater the differance, the lower the grade.&nbsp; Here&#039;s&nbsp; a sample of a laser scanned coin...just for fun.:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.taicaan.com/images/5_Pence_Coin_confocal_laser.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>As for a coin&#039;s color, we have instrumentation that can measure color more accurately than any human eye.&nbsp; For instance, go to your auto body shop or Home Depot.&nbsp; Bring in a sample and they can measure the sample using a <u>calibrated</u> and <u>consistent</u> light source.&nbsp; The reflection of this calibrated light is measured and calculated.&nbsp; Remember, reflection of light from an object is for all intensive purposes, color.&nbsp; Remember that your coins will look differant outside at 12:00 noon than in your kitchen because the light source is differant!</p><p><br /></p><p>So what is the given?&nbsp; My take, for instance, would be to take 10 PCGS MS66 1888-P Morgans, 10 NGC MS-66 1888-P Morgans, and 10 ANACS MS-66 1888-P and come up with a collective database of what &quot;is&quot; a true MS66 1888-P Morgan.&nbsp; Laser scan all of these coins to come up with a collective average for 50,000 x ,y, z data points on the coin.&nbsp; You have to do each coin and each year and each mint because as we know, New Orlean Morgans for instance have much weaker strikes than a San Francisco minted Morgan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Scan in your submission, and if it meets a MS66 grade (with given +/- parameters)...then it &quot;is&quot; a MS66 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything to take the human element out of grading has my vote...especially for technical grades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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