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Message:: [QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 2086629, member: 4920"]Goldie, I think you're misunderstanding a little, here. Let me just start with your AU and MS. AU is AU for one reason, circulation wear. That's it. Any abrasions are inconsequential to the grade. Or, in your terminology, "rating." But that's the beginning and end of the inquiry. MS is where you start paying attention to nicks because by definition there's no circulation wear in MS. The lower in MS, usually, the more nicks. AU58 is going to blow away MS60-62 almost every time because it's going to be the less compromised with distracting abrasions. OK. Your "AU category (some big demerits) or the MS (some clear positives)." Again, you're not really seeing that difference right. Demerits and positives aren't what differentiate those. Circulation wear does that. Thus, again, a lot of us prefer AUs over the low MS, especially the high AUs, namely, the AU58s, because, but for the almost imperceptible wear, they're that much more eye-appealing. Finally, this is conditioned on condition-grading, or, "technical grading." Market grading, especially the way the TPGs do it, who knows? There's no reason about it. Just money. If, in the perception of the TPGs, the market is going to pay MS61 money for the AU58, the AU58 is a market MS61. Real complicated. Lol.[/QUOTE]