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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 7856126, member: 46237&quot;]There is no value in knowing the &quot;conservative&quot; grade of a coin for the sake of knowing the &quot;conservative&quot; grade of a coin. You&#039;re just lauding the merits of a self-licking ice cream cone.</p><p><br /></p><p>People want to know the grade of a coin for two reasons: The first is establishing value, for which knowing the <i>quality</i> of the coin is the key, not knowing the &quot;conservative&quot; grade. The second is establishing a hierarchy between like coins so they can be labelled as better or worse for purposes of upgrading in a collection, or for comparison in a registry set or the like. For this, &quot;conservative&quot; grading is also a failure, as AU58 coins are of indeterminable relative quality from the grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is simply nothing <i>actually useful</i> from &quot;conservative&quot; grading. All it lets you know is the &quot;conservative&quot; grade. So what? It is literally never more useful to know the &quot;conservative&quot; grade over the market or quality grade in any real world scenario.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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