Why don't TPG's assign the grade MS60 much?

I'll take a butt ugly 60 over a gorgeous 58 any day of the week if we're talking 1884s morgan, or the like

 

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I meant I'm a "classic U.S. guy" as in classic coins, as in old type coins.

 

The TPG's don't seem to use the MS-60 grade often. For me it fills a hole between AU-58 and MS-61. I've got two of them.

 

Haha! So true for that coin!

 

Bingo

MS60PL http://www.1881o.com/08117637_60pl_08.html
AU58 http://www.1881o.com/82490314_58_14.html
AU58 http://www.1881o.com/33582021_58_53.html

 

Here are a couple of my "butt ugly" MS60 coins:

 

I'd take the 58. It'd be cheaper, it looks nicer, and in a few years with a couple more submission attempts you could probably get it to come back in a 63 holder.

 

Almost all of those slabs seem to have a few years on them. It's not too much of a stretch to suggest none would be 60's today if resubmitted. Some might be lower, but most higher.

 

I think all that @jwitten has done there is prove the quality of his eye for coins, rather than offering anything either way about MS60's.

 

Yup, and maybe the sheer size of his gold stash, too.

 

Well, if you're gonna park money in numismatics, you could choose a far riskier concentration.

 

Yeah.... , unless he grabbed most of it in 2011, but I see no sign of that. I HAVE SEEN auction sheets with roll after roll of 2011 ASE's, though, and that tells me a bowlful about a lot of coin people.