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<p>[QUOTE="sio2ga, post: 2676705, member: 83570"]Well, not so fast. We don't know if MCM was allowed to specify an unusually high "lowest grade allowed". They could have specified nothing under SP69. And, to complicate it further, we don't know how many in total they turned in to grade.</p><p>If they turned in 7000 and got 2000 @ 69 and 5000 @ 70 then that is GREAT (but something like that would never happen with any coin). But if they turned in 50,000 and had 43,000 rejects that didn't meet their 69 minimum, that wouldn't be so good. Now, I'm just throwing crazy high numbers on the last part to illustrate a point. But, there was ZERO sp68's so that tells me almost without a doubt that their minimum was 69. You can tell that by there being no 68 at all, not even one!</p><p>How many didn't meet the cut? I'd like to know as it would tell the story. It could have been a normal reasonable amount or maybe not!</p><p>And of course, the ones that didn't meet their minimum grade will be the ones we will be able to buy raw from them. :-( Meaning if you want a raw SP69 you're gonna have to crack it out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sio2ga, post: 2676705, member: 83570"]Well, not so fast. We don't know if MCM was allowed to specify an unusually high "lowest grade allowed". They could have specified nothing under SP69. And, to complicate it further, we don't know how many in total they turned in to grade. If they turned in 7000 and got 2000 @ 69 and 5000 @ 70 then that is GREAT (but something like that would never happen with any coin). But if they turned in 50,000 and had 43,000 rejects that didn't meet their 69 minimum, that wouldn't be so good. Now, I'm just throwing crazy high numbers on the last part to illustrate a point. But, there was ZERO sp68's so that tells me almost without a doubt that their minimum was 69. You can tell that by there being no 68 at all, not even one! How many didn't meet the cut? I'd like to know as it would tell the story. It could have been a normal reasonable amount or maybe not! And of course, the ones that didn't meet their minimum grade will be the ones we will be able to buy raw from them. :-( Meaning if you want a raw SP69 you're gonna have to crack it out.[/QUOTE]
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