Cgs - Coin Grading Services - UK TPG

A little but not much since it really doesn't mean anything. It's no different than back in 1978 when the ANA added the number to the grades G, VG, F, VF, XF, AU, MS don't really mean anything different if you call them G-4, VG-8, F12, VF-20, XF-40, AU-50, and MS-60-70, or G-10, VG-20, F-30, VF-40, XF-50, AU-60, MS-70-100, or G-100, VG-200, F-300, VF-400, XF-500, AU-600, MS-700 - 1000. The ONLY thing the numbers mean is that the higher the number the better the grade. But the grades are still G,VG,F,VF,XF,AU and Unc.

If VG is defined as "Three letters of LIBERTY must be visible" and VG-8 is defined as "Three letters of LIBERTY must be visible", or VG-20 is defined as "Three letters of LIBERTY must be visible", what does it matter what the number is? It is still a VG.

I don't think they can consistently make the one point distinctions on MS coins with the current 70 point system. With the 100 point system they can break the grade down into finer levels, but that doesn't mean they can determine them accurately or consistently. Heck they could keep the current MS-60 to 70 system they have now and go to one decimal point grading and add in another 110 levels of distinctions without changing the grading scale. Or look at it this way, they already talk about coins being high, low or solid for the different MS grades, so in effect they have already expanded the MS grades to 33 levels of distiction.