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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1405808, member: 26302&quot;]I see our own Mark Feld is in an article linked on coinflation:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2012/03/27/2285088/merced-coin-collector-has-national.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2012/03/27/2285088/merced-coin-collector-has-national.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2012/03/27/2285088/merced-coin-collector-has-national.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice article about a life long collector. </p><p><br /></p><p>My only question for the group is: If the collector won the competition by correctly grading 12 out of 20 coins presented to him, and everyone else did worst, what is the point of such distinctions in grades? I am not trying to get into TPG issues, or anything similar, but if many or even most collectors cannot grade with such distinction that they would agree even 50% with &quot;professionals&quot;, (most contestants got less than 10/20 right), what is the point? In circulated grades most everyone who learns how to grade will agree. I am not talking about grading from photos, but in hand I agree on circulated grades with about every dealer and experienced collector. Therefor, circulated grades are repeatable and learnable by all. However, BU grades are demonstrably not. The winner of a $2500 coin getting 12/20 right kind of proves that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just wondering what others thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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