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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3526086, member: 24314&quot;]I wish we had a LOL option.&nbsp; Please keep this discussion related to coins.&nbsp; There is a big difference between not using horses anymore because the automobile came along (as irrelevant as a firetruck example), and ignoring the simple to ID and apply standard for friction on a surface: &quot;No trace of wear.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>If the ANA were to publish a new grading guide with no change up to AU-58 and then inserted AU-60-64 (all with the same amount of friction as a true AU-58) before continuing with the MS-60 on up range, much of the complaining/disagreements would end.&nbsp; The number of contact marks would only be important for coins grading in the AU and MS range.&nbsp; Once a coin was not MS, only loss of detail lowers its grade.&nbsp; AU-60-64 would be graded with the same criteria we use for MS as the friction is ignored and indicated by the AU before the number.&nbsp; The new AU-62 would be on most coins now graded as MS. </p><p><br /></p><p>This would possibly put enough pressure on the TPGS to change.&nbsp; They could claim that getting in line with the ANA was the reason to change and not anything they had done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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