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Posted By: Bruce Moreland

I criticize the absence of scale. A significant problem with grading standards is that there is no standard way to express scale when discussing corner wear. One man's "touch" is another man's "rounding".

The problem still exists with these corner scans. You don't know whether you are seeing a square that is 1/2 mm or 3 mm. You don't know whether the huge hunk of paper you see missing is a touch or light wear.

Below a certain grade, the corner scan will be useless or perhaps misleading. If someone sends in a card with heavy corner rounding, what good is a scan of a tiny square of that?

All that's necessary is some scale.

bruce