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Scot Reader
I agree with Barry that grading is already complex enough.
That said, I would have much preferred if PSA had decided to differentiate between "poor" and "fair" and avoided the artifice of "gem mint", that is:
1 - P
2 - F
3 - G
4 - VG
5 - VG/EX
6 - EX
7 - EX/NM
8 - NM
9 - NM/MT
10 - MT
After all, who doesn't think that an "excellent" anything is better than a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10?
Of course, for reasons identified by David, it was in PSA's economic interest to create a scale with greater differentiation at the high end.