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"So do you wish the grading scale were like it was decades ago, with only F, AG,G,VG,F,VF,EF,AU,BU?  I don't; the purpose of my first post here was confusion/unhappiness over what I perceive to be extreme variability in grading standards with a 70-point scale.  \n\tI don't know that we need a 70-point scale, because, demonstrably, it's not consistently applied.  I don't even know that we need a 30-point scale.  But, for coins I collect, two levels of \"F\" are useful, as are several levels of \"VF\" and three or four grades covering what is now 40-55.\n \n\n\n\tLike you, I like the fairly objective standard of MS70 and AU58 (and for those of us not \"investing\" as much as we're building an affordable collection of pretty coins, I find AU58 to be sweet spot in the value curve).  I think that dividing MS into eleven grades is ridiculous.  But it's a long continuum between 1 and 55, and I like having a fair number of steps.\n \n\n\n\tMark\n \n"
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