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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 4611917, member: 78244&quot;]This is where you are wrong and deluding yourself. It is a measure of the coin’s state of preservation. Nothing more, and nothing less. The TPGs are bending the rules a little bit to adjust the coin’s grade to be commensurate with the “value” they think it should have.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Is it though? A fully-stuck and well-centered Athens tet will always sell for more than a weakly-stuck example that is halfway off the flan, even if they are both Mint State. It isn’t a fool’s notion. It’s how the market has always been.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m sure exceptions can be made for those who pursue numbers, but it is safe to assume that they have no idea what they are doing and thus don’t count.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sounds like you are the one that can’t get the market’s indoctrination out of your head. There is no reason that a lower grade can’t be worth more than a higher grade. Coins graded AU-58+ routinely sell for MS-61/62 money.</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s why I am a proponent of a 60-70 system for coins with circulation wear/cabinet friction. So you can have an amazing coin with a touch of wear that grades AU-65, and it will be worth more than the “UNCs” graded MS-60 to 62. Mindsets are already shifting this way.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is so incorrect that it is laughable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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