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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tbarreca, post: 748073, member: 21275&quot;]Best conversation I&#039;ve seen in the short time I&#039;ve been here.&nbsp; Come on, numismatic wisdom combined with classical languages and culture, with a dollop of philosophy as a side dish!&nbsp; What&#039;s not to like?!</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that most reasonably serious collectors have encountered this AU vs. MS dilemma at one time or another, and that the only ones who resolve it systematically in favor of MS are those who are mostly concerned about their registry set ranks, which are calculated strictly on grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Insofar as digital (i.e., laser) grading is concerned, forget it.&nbsp; This is a topic that is of professional interest to me (I had a software startup that was doing savant-level image processing), and I personally do not expect to see this in my lifetime, if ever.&nbsp; I could write a doctoral dissertation on how hard a problem this is from a computer-science perspective.&nbsp; But I&#039;ll pass for now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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