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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1002352, member: 66&quot;]This is old news to oldtimers.&nbsp; Even PCGS tactfully announced this years ago.&nbsp; I believe it was page 19 of the first edition of the PCGS grading guide where they&nbsp; say that capped bust halves with light wear can be graded as MS and that Saint-Gaudens double eagles can have rub on the leg in grades all the way up the MS-67!&nbsp; (Darn Doug beat me to it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And most of the M-60 and 61 grades disappeared long ago.&nbsp; Back in the early years of slabbing MS-60 and 61 coins were quite common.&nbsp; The they just dried up and the number of 62&#039;s exploded.&nbsp; It seems if it was MS and good enough to send in then it must be good enough for at least a 62.&nbsp; This was around the 88 - 90 period.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the 70 to 100 point grading, you folks have missed it.&nbsp; They floated that ballon awhle back and it was soundly rejected.&nbsp; (No one wanted to learn a new system, everything would have to be regraded, AND BESIDES THEY WEREN&#039;T CONSISTANT ENOUGH ALREADY WITH JUST ELEVEN MS POINTS!)&nbsp; So then they announce their new Plus system and theynow use in house 101 MS grading points.&nbsp; (what was that concern again about consistancy?) But they announced it and now the hobby is falling all over themselves to embrace it. (Mooo.&nbsp; Or maybe that should be Baahh?)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now isn&#039;t that a mixed message since in the &quot;Sheldon&quot; grading system Basel State would be a Poor-1[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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