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Message:: [QUOTE="Ed Zak, post: 32155, member: 824"]Nope, not for me...there is too much room between VF to EF to AU to MS, etc. Wait...maybe I will change my mind if somebody wants to buy my coin and I deem it AU58 instead of AU50.  When I am buying, I like the seven point system if I can buy the same coin at AU50 dollars instead of AU58. Numbers are quantitative!  Adjectives have too much room.  For instance, when I buy gasoline, I buy either 87, 89 or 93 octane.  Now I have seen octane levels at 88, 90, 91 and 94 too!  This is when oil companies advertise SU2000+ or Super Clean Plus or whatever.  Call it whatever you want, I WANT NUMBERS!!  2+2 = 4...there is NO other answer. Since we are judging grades and offering a subjective opinion, could you imagine if figure skating, diving, or other Olympic events had a 7 point grading scale?  We would have "judging scores" of: -Poor performance-Not good-O.K.-Not bad-Pretty good-Excellent-Perfect Well, a 6.0 is better than a 5.9 and I understand that better than "grades" of "not bad" versus "pretty good"! Dr. Sheldon put numbers to grading almost 30 years before grading services entered the numismatic community.  Numbers work! Let the debate begin![/QUOTE]