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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 8196163, member: 73489&quot;]GDJMSP is a veteran, clearly knows the ins-and-outs of grading along with other veterans here (maybe including you too, Charley <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been fascinated -- rightly or wrongly -- with some of the longest, most-detailed, most egregious examples of Gradeflation involving PCGC coins, despite NGC&nbsp; coins being the ones which trade at a discount.&nbsp; Responses to this are necessarily going to be generalizations and opinion.&nbsp; It&#039;s not something you can quantify, that&#039;s for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>I probably shouldn&#039;t have used the word &quot;bubble&quot; when addressing you because that is more appropriate when describing a rapid rise in prices that is unsustainable.&nbsp; This Grafeflation involves <b>SUSTAINED and PERSISTENT prices</b> that show a premium for PCGS, one that increases as the condition scarcity increases, all other things equal.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said, I just find that weird, considering that PCGS seems to have the most infamous examples of overgrading.&nbsp; Maybe NGC had that distinction from 1986 through the early-2000&#039;s, I dunno.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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