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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 971668, member: 26302&quot;]Of course. I was referring to coins of which they minted hundreds of millions, but the TPGers made &quot;rare&quot; by giving out ultra high grades. A higher grade ALMOST by definition is worth more than a lower grade coin. However, the prices of MS68 common mercury dimes are only made possible by slabbing. I just think its silly that such a common coin is called a &quot;major rarity&quot; because of a grade assigned to it, (a grade based upon a proprietary grading scale no less). I am not talking a 1921 or something, but a generic date like a 44d. To me rarity is a coin rare in all grades, not something that probably 30,000,000 probably still survive in all grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>Generic MS65&#039;s and the like is what I am referring to, like the Morgans and others that led to the speculative bust of 1989. Is a 1944d MS68 worth more than a MS67? Yeah, but a price difference of like $10 would be more reasonable. Generics really don&#039;t care the date, just the grade.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am sure many or most US collectors disagree with me. I guess I am just a curmudgeon early in life. I like truly rare coins, regardless of their grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. As an aside, who gave TPG&#039;ers the right to be the standard setters of grading in the industry? They are in effect now,(if in fact they do not follow ANA guidelines). Shouldn&#039;t the ANA or someone be allowed to set the standards that a grader must adhere to? Doesn&#039;t anyone else see how self serving and manipulative them setting their own standards is?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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