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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 112264, member: 4381&quot;]Its not me and I don&#039;t think any research is going to change my mind on this.&nbsp; I have a problem with the whole way coins are graded.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wear IS damage.&nbsp; Toning is damage. There is some perfect ideal that a coin has.&nbsp; All deviations from this ideal, either by normal wear, which ***is*** damage, a scratch, which is more acute damage, or even from a poor strike such as a &#039;O&#039; Morgan or Peace Dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading ***should be*** some kind of linear (or logrithmic) offset of that perfection.</p><p><br /></p><p>When your 80 will you feel better if your MD tells you not to worry that heart is just &quot;worn out a little&quot;.&nbsp; Maybe its my grounding in Medicine and Research but in my book, damage is damage.&nbsp; When blood can&#039;t flow through that coronary artery, your not going to care if its normal wear or a sudden (acute) trama.&nbsp; I have no idea why it matters with coins.&nbsp; I do know that grading otherwise is non-objective and fraught with politics.&nbsp; It is highly unscientific.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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