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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 701197, member: 16510"]It could benifit the buyer or the seller or both or none.  It could benifit the buyer or the seller or both or none.  Like anything in life with variables (and what does not have variables) the truest answer to any and all questions is "it depends".Please don't think I'm being eleusive I am not  but as one gets older this is one of thoses wisdoms that come through "trial by fire".Coin grading is not a thing that can be decided "once and for all" with obsolute certainty.  There many people who cannot be satisfied with an answer that has uncertainty along with it - those folks are going to be continually frustrated when it comes to coin grading, coin pricing, just about everything in "the coin world".When you see an AU-53 grade in a coin by one of the big three TPG companies it's a coin that is probably special in some way - either a key date, rare, very rare, few are known, or few have been seen like that.  Now just in the above explanation there are about 100,000 variables already built in so I hope you can see what I am trying to tell you.One of the best things you could do to understand this is - go to shops and shows, make a list and include notes on every AU-53 you can find - do that for a year or two and then write a new thread on you experience.  That would be a fasinating topic!!![/QUOTE]