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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 2975357, member: 77639&quot;]A grading company, CGS, in the UK is using a 100-point scale.&nbsp; My impression, based on UK-based forums and UK-origin youtube videos, is that it is not doing that well.&nbsp; I&#039;m not referring to its profitability, but to the low number of coins graded.&nbsp; I think the 70-point scale used in the US is becoming more widespread in the rest of the world, largely due to increasing popularity of having coins graded by PCGS and NGC.&nbsp; Part of this is marketing by PCGS and NGC, but it&#039;s mostly due to desire to have easy access to the US market for world coins. A collector or dealer in the UK or Germany or China wants to be able to sell their non-US coins easily on eBay or via Heritage or other venues, and it&#039;s done most easily if the coins are in PCGS or NGC slabs.&nbsp; It&#039;s an instance of globalization benefitting the US.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most collectors and dealers, whether they admit it or not, want coins graded on a single scale.&nbsp; Yes, wise collectors and dealers want to look at the coins themselves in certain grade ranges, but a single numeric or adjectival grade at least narrows the range.&nbsp; If you want a particular coin in what you define as XF, you&#039;re probably not going to look at one graded F or below or MS or above by a TPG.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at the pic below which is the back of old ANACS photo-grading certificate for a double eagle I once owned.&nbsp; It gives lots of detail, and final grade was 60/60.&nbsp; If you&#039;re trying to sell such a coin online and catch the attention of potential buyers using a search engine, how do you do it?&nbsp; Chances are, yep, you&#039;ll use MS60 without elaboration in the title of your ad.&nbsp; Then it&#039;s up to potential buyers to look at further details if they click on your ad.&nbsp; Hopefully, they&#039;ll spend most of their time looking at pics.&nbsp; And if they like the coin in the pics and price, they&#039;ll buy or bid.&nbsp; Same process would be followed though if the coin were in a slab that only stated MS60 on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, this particular coin eventually went into a PCGS slab with a grade of MS62.&nbsp; And no, I&#039;m not going to make a conclusion about grading standards based on a single example.</p><p><br /></p><p>We inherited the 70-point scale from large cent collectors.&nbsp; It&#039;s too many ticks for my taste, especially now that half-point increments are being used.&nbsp; However, it&#039;s too well established in the US and increasingly elsewhere to believe it will be replaced anytime soon.&nbsp; It can be thought-provoking and sometimes entertaining to discuss other grading scales, but the 70-point, single-grade-per-coin system is here to stay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p>[ATTACH=full]730870[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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