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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 492643, member: 15309&quot;]I think you should go on.&nbsp; Just because you may not change Mike&#039;s mind or even mine for that matter, doesn&#039;t mean that a lurker might not benefit from the knowledge that you post.&nbsp; This thread has gotten very good with just the kind of discussion that I was hoping to provoke.&nbsp; And you know very well that strike is not my area of expertise because of my collecting habits.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am eager to find out why you can&#039;t grade a coins strike versus the original design as opposed to choosing a minted example that reflects a certain grade.&nbsp; Even if you had to choose a certain mint &amp; year as an example of a particular grade, why you can&#039;t judge other coins from other mints and years versus each other.&nbsp; I really don&#039;t understand the idea of a bell curve for grading.&nbsp; I have an idea of what an MS66 Peace Dollar looks like.&nbsp; If a particular mint during a particular year was unable to produce a coin that looks like an MS66, then they should have to settle for an MS65 as the highest grade produced.&nbsp; They should not get a grading curve because they were mandated to mint a number of coins that precluded them from concentrating on quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>My real concern is how a collector is supposed to assemble a well matched set of coins if the grading standards change from mint to mint and year to year.&nbsp; If you can explain that to me Doug, I would be grateful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks</p><p><br /></p><p>Paul[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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