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The costs involved to capture all the angles of view to render an accurate grade is simply too high to make this feasible currently. I would estimate you are looking at $20 million(this includes all the research, development, cost for multiple devices, maintenance, etc...)to get something decent developed. Now as some have also brought up, there are scanner type machines available now that can catch some trimming on modern cards, but that is also not cheap and adds yet another step in the process. Anyone here believe grading companies with the backlog they currently have feel the need to slow things down currently even further and spend $1-2 million also to have enough of those machines?

This concept was tried over 30 years ago by PCGS, PSA’s sister company and at a cost well over a million spent at that time. It was an absolute failure, the developers had no real clue how to implement this idea because they had no concept of how to understand coin grading, nor how to translate it to all the nuances in grading there are. This machine was, after completion, barely competent at grading one series and type of coin, with a major caveat, you cannot then nor currently teach a machine eye appeal.