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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 557071, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Yes and no.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes and no.</p><p>The no is if it&#039;s the only coin in existence it would be graded according to it&#039;s condition - you can do nothing else in that case.</p><p>The yes is when there are only a few and you happen to find one better as I did it 2000 with a 1971-P DDO-001 FS#25cent 27.7 a very rare Washington Quarter doublED die.</p><p>It was featured in a 10-02-2000 Coin World Article by Ken Potter.</p><p>Honestly when I sent it in to ANACS I thought I would get maybe a VF-35, what I got was an AU-53 - blew my mind!</p><p>After selling it to Billy Crawford we discussed it and the only explanation was it was so rare and better than all the ones found they graded it according to census of coins know so far???&nbsp; That was the only explanation - it is, in fact so rare it has been deleted from the modern Cherry Pickers editions.&nbsp; Why? I have never been able to find out???</p><p>But this is not the only case in point.</p><p>There are tons of type coins that hardly ever come with things like full strikes, nice planchets, good color and on and on.</p><p>When exceptional coins previously not know in that grade or strike come on the market those factors are figured in, maybe not every time but often.&nbsp; Of course we have all also seen the under-graded or over-graded TPG slabs from every service.</p><p>One more example - I am sure that somewhere, someone has a roll of several singles of a 1926-S Lincoln cent in gem red.&nbsp; Now this coin in MS-65 Red is well over $100,000 dollars because there is only one known.&nbsp; But let another come on the market that rivals and/or slightly exceeds the one known, and if the owners knows all this they well could give an otherwise MS-65 Red a MS-66 or 67 and maybe a 68.</p><p>There are exceptions to every rule in life and especially to coin grading - this is the thing that drives people like engineers and accountants crazy because they cannot &quot;get their hands around it&quot;.</p><p>But the truest answer to 99.9 of all questions in life is &quot;it depends&quot; and if you don&#039;t think so you are setting yourself up for frustration after frustration because there is hardly anything &quot;set in stone&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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