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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2016760, member: 15309&quot;]When was that?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Online auction archives only go back about 10-12 years so of course you can make that claim since there is no way to prove or disprove it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is no possible way to eliminate price ranges completely from the coin business.&nbsp; But if you concentrate almost all of the coins into a small range of grades, it will only serve to exacerbate the existence of conditional rarities.&nbsp; With more conditional rarities and the population of those rarities reduced, the laws of supply and demand will dictate the the prices of those conditional rarities rise, thereby increasing the price gap between the conditional rarity grade and the next lower grade.&nbsp; The larger that gap, the wider range of price variance you will see for the lower grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen Saint Gaudens Double Eagles with high point wear in PCGS rattler holders with MS grades.&nbsp; That means that the TPGs made the decision very early on not to grade Saints by the &quot;wear is wear&quot; philosophy.&nbsp; If they had graded them that way, almost every Saint would reside in an AU holder and the quality would be all over the map for the AU58 grade.&nbsp; The variance in that grade would be enormous.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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