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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KSorbo, post: 2284805, member: 56370&quot;]Wear and bag marks are also damage, technically speaking, and we have a objective scale (sort of...) for quantifying that.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting how NGC grades Ancients considering that they are all &quot;problem coins&quot; with cleaning, environmental damage and so forth.&nbsp; In addition to wear, they rate the coins on a five point scale for strike and surface quality.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think its too far fetched to imagine a similar scale being adopted for other coins.&nbsp; Psychologically, at least for me, a &quot;details&quot; holder carries the same stigma regardless of the severity of the problem.&nbsp; If the TPG&#039;s were to adopt a severity scale for rating problems, it might create some more liquidity for &quot;problem&quot; coins.&nbsp; Plus it would generate more profit from resubmissions.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand I do realize that this would add a lot of complexity as well as subjectivity.&nbsp; Turning every coin into a science project could make some people just give up on the whole thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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