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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 469445, member: 112&quot;]That&#039;s exactly what I&#039;m going to tell you. The first two coins were sold in Sept. 2000 - which explains the lower quality pics by the way. The next 2 coins were sold in Oct. 2008. And I know that 2 coins does not a sample make. However, if you were to check the entire date spectrum you will find that the sample is there for all to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>One other thing, and we have discussed this before - the value aspect of market grading - the first two coins sold for $175 &amp; $170. The next 2 coins sold for $276 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now perhaps even more interesting, but more disturbing IMO, is that if you check the auction archives only the most recent 1,000 entries will come up on the results page. Care to guess how far back the dates go on that page ? Well let&#039;s just say that every single one of them has a 2008 date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I can remember that just a couple of years ago if you were to have done the same search, the results would have encompassed the entire date spectrum of the Heritage archives - and you still would not have 1,000 entries for coins graded MS66. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I have told you before Paul, it has only been in the past couple of years that the value aspect of market grading has had an impact on the assigned grades. And if one checks the charts on the values of Morgans over the past 10 years, <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/coinindex/mpeace10graph.chtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/coinindex/mpeace10graph.chtml" rel="nofollow">Click Here</a>, and compares those values with the past grading practices that can be found in the Heritage archives, you can see what I mean. Prior to two years ago, and more especially the past year, the asigned grades were affected by value. For if they had been, you would have had a flood of higher grades in 2005 - but we didn&#039;t. The higher grades have only appeared very recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, that defines a trend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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