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Message:: [QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 2298944, member: 4920"]That's a good point to ponder on the contact marks. While I'm pondering it, I think I see where you're astray, if I may, in your second paragraph. Let me see I can get you back on the track, by pointing this out. When we cross into MS, we cross a threshold. We cross from looking for wear, compromising the devices, primarily, to contacts and luster, from the moment it left the Mint. That's why, remove the touch of wear on that AU58, it's MS64, going away. That's technical grading, i.e., condition grading. Now, to where I think you did hit the nail on the head. Market grading, indeed, is a continuum. Do we know why? It mixes up or synthesizes grades with the price guides. That's what it is. That's why it's here. It's money grading, if they were honest about it, pure and simple.[/QUOTE]