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<p>[QUOTE="CHAMELEON, post: 543940, member: 11032"]I have seen a few Franklin half dollar proofs that PCGS has recently graded that were as AT as they come, but in the big picture NGC has slabbed a whole lot more AT coins. To be honest, I think all the grading companies are a joke unless you send them an extremely scarce coin. Slabs really mean nothing to me. It's just another person's opinion. I've got my own opinions that don't cost $12-$30 per coin. I've seen quite a few key date Morgan dollars that were over-graded by more than just a point or two, which I find to be very odd. No company has grading down to an exact science. There was talk of a new method to grading that would give the slabs a definitive grade that could not be argued with, but it hasn't made any appearances as of yet. It was either NGC or PCGS ( I forget) that was tossing around the idea of a computer grading the surfaces of a coin to determine an acurate grade based on the number of marks and the amount of wear. It would be done with some sort of lasers or something and the grade would be figured by calculating the figures gathered by the scan of the coin and determined by the grading specifications that the computer had been assigned. That way, no one could argue that an MS-64 was really MS-65. Each time the coin would be scanned, the same exact grade would be given. Until something like this is done, a graded coin has nothing sustantial to back up it's assigned grade. I don't know if this idea is still being considered, but I do know that it was expected to be very expensive to set it up. My guess is that it was dropped, but who knows?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CHAMELEON, post: 543940, member: 11032"]I have seen a few Franklin half dollar proofs that PCGS has recently graded that were as AT as they come, but in the big picture NGC has slabbed a whole lot more AT coins. To be honest, I think all the grading companies are a joke unless you send them an extremely scarce coin. Slabs really mean nothing to me. It's just another person's opinion. I've got my own opinions that don't cost $12-$30 per coin. I've seen quite a few key date Morgan dollars that were over-graded by more than just a point or two, which I find to be very odd. No company has grading down to an exact science. There was talk of a new method to grading that would give the slabs a definitive grade that could not be argued with, but it hasn't made any appearances as of yet. It was either NGC or PCGS ( I forget) that was tossing around the idea of a computer grading the surfaces of a coin to determine an acurate grade based on the number of marks and the amount of wear. It would be done with some sort of lasers or something and the grade would be figured by calculating the figures gathered by the scan of the coin and determined by the grading specifications that the computer had been assigned. That way, no one could argue that an MS-64 was really MS-65. Each time the coin would be scanned, the same exact grade would be given. Until something like this is done, a graded coin has nothing sustantial to back up it's assigned grade. I don't know if this idea is still being considered, but I do know that it was expected to be very expensive to set it up. My guess is that it was dropped, but who knows?[/QUOTE]
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