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<p>[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3525815, member: 46237"]I'm reading this as you saying it's important to you because that's just the way it's been done in the past. Granted, that's a very American-centric style of grading, and oh yeah it also doesn't apply to ancients, but I'm sure it's the only way to do it, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, local fire fighting brigades predated the municipal fire fighting services we take for granted. These brigades were contracted by fire insurers who would put markers on buildings that had paid in advance for coverage. The fire insurers would pay their contracted brigade to put out a fire when they got to the house. Of course, sometimes the first brigade on the scene was not one contracted with your fire insurer, and they would just sit there and wait for the homeowner to come out and pay them privately. If you had coverage, it would take time for them to verify that you were currently paid up. And of course, if you didn't have coverage, you were out of luck, but the brigades would wait and keep your neighbors' houses from catching fire from your blaze if they had coverage and you didn't.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course this system was inefficient and did a disservice to public safety. It seems ridiculous to us now, but this system persisted for over a century. I'm sure there were many people who advocated for maintaining the fire brigade system and kept it going for over a hundred years because that's the system! It's how it's done and everyone had better learn and get their fire markers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as with the long established fire brigade system, the fact that this American-centric, non-ancients grading system is how it's been done for the last few decades is completely irrelevant. The coins exist with or without this system. I'm trying to look at it from the perspective of, here's a coin, how would I go about evaluating it in the simplest way that creates a useful grade for a collector. This means looking at it without the deeply-ingrained bias of wear is wear that many here seem to have. Your time in the industry has conditioned you to accept the existing system and not think outside the box. I get it. But municipal fire service really was a better idea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3525815, member: 46237"]I'm reading this as you saying it's important to you because that's just the way it's been done in the past. Granted, that's a very American-centric style of grading, and oh yeah it also doesn't apply to ancients, but I'm sure it's the only way to do it, right? In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, local fire fighting brigades predated the municipal fire fighting services we take for granted. These brigades were contracted by fire insurers who would put markers on buildings that had paid in advance for coverage. The fire insurers would pay their contracted brigade to put out a fire when they got to the house. Of course, sometimes the first brigade on the scene was not one contracted with your fire insurer, and they would just sit there and wait for the homeowner to come out and pay them privately. If you had coverage, it would take time for them to verify that you were currently paid up. And of course, if you didn't have coverage, you were out of luck, but the brigades would wait and keep your neighbors' houses from catching fire from your blaze if they had coverage and you didn't. Of course this system was inefficient and did a disservice to public safety. It seems ridiculous to us now, but this system persisted for over a century. I'm sure there were many people who advocated for maintaining the fire brigade system and kept it going for over a hundred years because that's the system! It's how it's done and everyone had better learn and get their fire markers. Just as with the long established fire brigade system, the fact that this American-centric, non-ancients grading system is how it's been done for the last few decades is completely irrelevant. The coins exist with or without this system. I'm trying to look at it from the perspective of, here's a coin, how would I go about evaluating it in the simplest way that creates a useful grade for a collector. This means looking at it without the deeply-ingrained bias of wear is wear that many here seem to have. Your time in the industry has conditioned you to accept the existing system and not think outside the box. I get it. But municipal fire service really was a better idea.[/QUOTE]
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