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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4449907, member: 112"]The new grading system adopted in '86 was tougher, more strict, than the system that was in use in '85. In '86 all MS coins were downgraded by 2 points, across the board. BUT, you also have to remember that there were grades added in '86 that didn't even exist in '85 ! Same kind of thing happened with the circ grades, coins were downgraded and grades were added. These two things - downgrades and added grades - are what throws the price table your using askew because none of that is accounted for in the price table. To really see what happened with prices you would have to have to have two different price tables, one that ended in say mid '86 and one that ended at the end of '86. In other words you'd need 1 price table for the old grading standard and a second price table for the new grading standard. But even then you really wouldn't be able to compare the two price tables to each other because they were both based on different things, and the 2nd table would encompass more grades than the 1st table did. When I said this - What I was trying to tell you is that's why the price table you're looking at doesn't make sense ! An it can't make sense, won't ever make sense, because it's trying to account for 2 completely different things in 1 table. The thing that does make sense, is that once you know and understand what happened, then you understand why the price table does not make sense ![/QUOTE]