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Message:: [QUOTE="princeofwaldo, post: 2055132, member: 24091"]I don't think they do.  And it's not because they have become immune from seeing so many great coins, but quite the opposite.  You have no idea how many truly ugly and messed-up coins come through a grading room.  Entire submissions of coins covered in PVC and otherwise ineligible for grading.  For every seasoned numismatist that is sending in coins to the grading services, there are 100 novice submitters who are sending in crap that begs the question "why would anyone submit this junk?".  And so when a truly spectacular coin crosses their desk, being true numismatists themselves, of course they are going to take pause to admire the truly sensational specimens that they handle.  As for rarity or significance, most of these guys grading at the professional level are able to see past the "rarity or especially significance" of a coin to treat it as something that simply needs to be attributed, authenticated and finally graded.  That's not to say there aren't some coins out there that receive preferential treatment based on their "significance".  We all know about coins that start off in an XF40 holder and somehow ratchet up one grade with each successive appearance at auction until they are MS62.  But that tends to be the exception rather than the rule.[/QUOTE]