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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2975196, member: 59677&quot;][USER=15019]@Numismat[/USER]&nbsp; What you&#039;re missing is the total move away from technical grading towards market and appearance grading given by what people want to buy ( parenthetical comment; as stupid as that is). We tried this once before when ANA owned ANACS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recommendations for new grading systems come about every few months. And usually die on the double edged sword of complexity and the fact that people don&#039;t really want a more (technically) accurate system. If you&#039;re buying the coin you don&#039;t really want an MS70 with a few dings - even if it is technically MS70. Come time to sell that same coin and of course it&#039;s an MS70 don&#039;t you see the label Grade from prestige TPG.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=84413]@Sundance79[/USER] the 70-point scale came from Sheldon&#039;s Penny Whimsy... it was price driven for a single variety of large cent. He would probably be greatly surprised to see it applied to everything. The coin in fair condition is worth twice as much as a coin in poor condition. PO1 and FR2. A coin in good condition four times as much and that coin in hypothetically absolute perfect condition 70 times as much.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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