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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 362120, member: 68&quot;]I thought we were in agreement that grading as practiced now is mere pricing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the main reason people submit; so they can just look at a&nbsp; sheet and see what their coin is worth.&nbsp; Once it&#039;s blessed and priced by a service it is not only genuine and fairly stable but everyone will agree that the base price can be found in the CDN.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course this system doesn&#039;t work extremely well.&nbsp; It can&#039;t work extremely well because two people aren&#039;t looking for the same thing in their coins.&nbsp; Bust collectors tend to prize pristine surfaces over almost everything else.&nbsp; If they can see nice cartwheel then they simply don&#039;t even see that the die was eroded beyond serviceability.&nbsp; Buffalo collectors tend to value strike.&nbsp; If they can see a sharp horn, tail, and braids then they might not notice the planchet scratching or the gouge in the field.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Say what you will but market grading is pricing and a couple of the principles have said as much.&nbsp; Sure they try to have a standard and stick to it but the simple fact is that coins are not run off cookie cutter style when any two alike.&nbsp; They start off very different and the longer they exist the more different they get because of enviromental factors.&nbsp; True grading would involve specifying what attributes the coin actually possesses and quantifying each of those aspects.&nbsp; Anyone with a few minutes training would be able to look at the grade and have a very accurate mental picture of the coin.&nbsp; But then even experts would have little idea of its value in many cases.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Since pricing can&#039;t work then it seems only logical to switch to grading.&nbsp; Then we&#039;d know if the &#039;79 cent is a 67/ 67/ 68/ 66 or a 68/ 67/ 67/ 66&nbsp; (or whatever).&nbsp; Each individual bidding on it would know exactly what it looks like instead of what the services think it will trade at.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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