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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8453856, member: 24314&quot;]justafarmer, posted: &quot;<b>This <span style="color: #b30000">would</span> also <span style="color: #b30000">require</span> a grading standard that remained static.&quot;</b></p><p><br /></p><p>It absolutely <b><span style="color: #b30000">WOULD NOT</span></b>!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no static grading standard NOW and thousands of coins are</p><p>&nbsp;&quot;professionally&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie18" alt=":bag:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> graded&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> every day.&nbsp;&nbsp; Once a coin is graded by &quot;whatever the team of professional graders decide the grade is finalized into the computer forever UNTIL something is done to it to fool the computer or change its grade.&nbsp; Coins would need to be sent to another major TPGS for any chance to change the grade.&nbsp; If that TPGS also graded coins their way and &quot;fingerprinted&quot; the coin into a computer its grade would be set forever at that TPGS.&nbsp; That&#039;s what the obsolete &quot;Technical System&quot; approached.&nbsp; Coins were graded very strictly by their condition only.&nbsp; Any other factors that influenced its sight unseen ID were added.&nbsp; A pristine, flawless, well struck 1884-O was graded the same as as a pristine, flawless, flatly struck 84-O.&nbsp; One was graded MS-65 (the highest grade at the time) while the other was graded MS-65, Flat Strike.&nbsp; Both were absolutely virtually perfect as struck coins BUT ONE WAS WORTH A LOT MORE MONEY.&nbsp; Add splotchy, brown, low eye appeal to the flat coin and it became an MS-65, flatly struck, splotchy toned coin.&nbsp; Worth much less until it was dipped and the eye appeal was raised adding to its value again.&nbsp;&nbsp; We devised Technical Grading to ONLY IDENTIFY a coin, not to place a value on it.&nbsp; Coin dealers can do that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is virtually impossible to have two coins with the same &quot;fingerprint.&quot;&nbsp; You and other authenticators use &quot;fingerprint&quot; to ID marks.&nbsp; While this is also a part of computer grading everything else on the coin counts for the computer.&nbsp; Tat includes luster, color, strike, etc.&nbsp; Thus the tiny black &quot;flecks&quot; on the coin in the left slab is all it takes tp differentiate it from the coin on the right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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