New grading scale. Is everyone with me on this?

hoardmonster

I'm hoping that the major grading services will incorporate a decimal grading system. It will be so much more exciting if we can rip an MS65.7, crack it out and have it come back 65.8. You guys in?

nugget369

I like this idea. The graders could each allot grades to one tenth and then the final grade could be the average from all three or four of the graders who evaluated the coin. This way you would know that a 65.0 barely made the grade and a 65.8 would be a choice example. Of course this would radically change the pricing structure too.

kyleknap

....and I thought 70 grades was confusing!

hoardmonster

<< <i>This way you would know that a 65.0 barely made the grade and a 65.8 would be a choice example. >>



I was joking, but this actually makes sense.

XpipedreamR

I would prefer simplifying to a two grade system...thumbs up, and thumbs down.

hoardmonster

That could definitely work for me XpipedreamR.

Baley

An Old Thread on the subject of Decimal Grading

Blade

You're talking about Anaconda's proposal for "rational grading" from 2/3/03. See thread:

Anaconda grading thread

Blade

Baley,
I was searching while you were a postin'.

Looks like Anaconda beat you by a month!

Wolf359

I'm not crazy about it. Things are complex enough. I just don't see going from a 1-70 system to basically 1-700.
Can't see ANA doing it either. Just too nit-noid for me.

Coppernicus

I'm thinking three digits past the decimal point. I know my MS64.788 is really a MS64.804 - it's crackout time!

Seriously, why go to finer gradations when many 64's are 65's or 63's, etc.? We're not measuring the diameter of a proton here - we're dealing with a judgement call, not science.

JMHO, Mike

kamehameha00

If we made a scale like this there would be way too much argument on what a coin's grade is.

Merc

I've read that in house grading at NGC uses A, B, or C after the grade for high ave and low end for the grade. So a just made it MS65 would be a MS65C. I think this would work better than using decimals.