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Message:: [QUOTE="coppercoins, post: 565860, member: 152"]If PCGS were in trouble and needed money they could EASILY make it by expanding their coin numbering system to include ALL die varieties and they would be completely swamped with business.  People have been BEGGING them for years to stop recognizing only the top 2.5% of known die varieties and start using some of the systems that delve farther into the mix...but because of the work and trouble involved, they have vehemiantly refused. If PCGS were in financial trouble they would go to the 100 point grading system, or start grading mint state coins in decimals (MS65.6) so people would send coins back in for regrade.  Some have said it will eventually come anyway, so why not go ahead and get it over with? If PCGS were in financial trouble they would start recognizing that the age (or state) of the die that struck the coins SHOULD have something to do with the grade of the coin, because a sharply struck mark free example of any issue in crystal clear EDS is a whole different coin that the same in a mushy VLDS...but both get MS67 at the grading services, thus keeping picky people from ever buying coins sight unseen because the die state is not mentioned on the holders. I think there are a LOT of realistic (albeit probably very unpopular) directions for the grading services to go if they need money before bothering with grading pocket lint or saltines.[/QUOTE]