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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 167800, member: 66&quot;]True, but it may be well known in the room that auction house X is going to be selling (or a big name dealer has recently acquired) say a major collection of large cents in three or four months,&nbsp; oh and look what has shown up in the valut.&nbsp; A whole bunch of boxes grouped as one submission that includes 700 large cents grouped by date and variety.&nbsp; &quot;Oh I haven&#039;t got a clue who those would belong to.&quot;&nbsp; Or &quot;This box has the same grouping of key coins that my friend dealer Y told me he was sending in.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>But yes popular key dates DO tend to get a bump up of a grade, especially for the lower grade coins.&nbsp; One of the worst offenders is the 1916-D mercury dime.&nbsp; I have seen coins with no rim on either side and the rim worn halfway into the letters (a coin that would be Fair-2 for any other date) graded as G-4.&nbsp; If you find a piece that barely has full rims on both sides it will most likely be slabbed as a VG-8.&nbsp; I see this at coin shows ALL the time and I am talking about PCGS and NGC not the third tier services.&nbsp; (In fact it might be better to look at the third tier services, you might find more accurate grading on this issue.&nbsp; I can&#039;t say for sure, I haven&#039;t looked.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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