100 Point Grading

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  • ColonelJessup
    ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 26, 2018 3:00PM
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    A collective sigh of relief as we find out (again) the world is not flat. Your service to the fuzzy--minded is laudable :'(

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • REALGATOR
    REALGATOR Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    We've made it to 2018 with the Sheldon scale. Drop the mic already.

  • AuroraBorealis
    AuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 26, 2018 10:13PM
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    Thank Goodness!!!!! I like PCGS already and now even more... :)

  • VanHalen
    VanHalen Posts: 4,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I love the Sheldon Scale myself and hope we always use it. Leave well enough alone.

  • DIMEMAN
    DIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @VanHalen said:
    I love the Sheldon Scale myself and hope we always use it. Leave well enough alone.

    Totally agree!!

  • BlindedByEgo
    BlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Seriously, what did I miss?

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  • ChristopherCoins
    ChristopherCoins Posts: 26 ✭✭
    edited September 29, 2018 12:36PM
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    The 100 point scale is a solution to a problem that didn't exist. I can't imagine the chaos that would result. PCGS might get to reholder a lot of coins though so kudos to PCGS for not promoting this.

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  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BlindedByEgo said:
    Seriously, what did I miss?

    Many were fearing PCGS going to 100 point grading. They aren’t.

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  • CoinZip
    CoinZip Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭
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    "Change" is not easy..... if it was, everyone would collect it ;)

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  • YQQ
    YQQ Posts: 3,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The world could , as an alternative, always adopt the European ( German ETC) grading system.
    there you can stretch a VF and end up at the end of the rubber band,s stretch with a AU50.
    And, when questioned, the dealer tells you that he has 30 years experience and you have NO idea.

    Today is the first day of the rest of my life
  • BUFFNIXX
    BUFFNIXX Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Same thing happened with the Cherrypickers guide when they went from the old format to the new format variety numbers. You wound up quoting both the new and old number on a coin and it did not help at all.

    Collector of Buffalo Nickels and other 20th century United States Coinage
    a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"
  • specialist
    specialist Posts: 956 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Bummer, and I was looking for a grade of 101+...... :o

    Good call....

  • OldIndianNutKase
    OldIndianNutKase Posts: 2,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I totally agree that a 100 point scale does not add any definition to the grading of coins and would only create chaos in the collecting community.

    PCGS instead should abandon the RD/RB/BN grading of copper and instead grade copper only on the basis of eye appeal. Highly graded coins that have unattractive toning or tarnish should be downgraded based upon unattractive appearance.

    To be clear, toning should be a grading factor that affects gradation, and reflective of valuation. Example in point is the 1958 nicely toned Franklin $.50 which sold for over $100,000.......almost 10x PCGS value.

    OINK

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