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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1238861, member: 2972&quot;]It isn&#039;t that way today.&nbsp; Today, technical grading does a poor job of predicting value on coins that are more (or less) valuable than their technical (i.e. detail) grades.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course it should happen if your goal is to assign a relative value.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll take your word for it that value only recently came into the equation.&nbsp; That said, I&#039;m not sure that &quot;they think&quot; any such thing -- I certainly don&#039;t.&nbsp; Market grading only comes into play on coins that have attributes that make the value of the coin diverge from its technical grade, and in the grand scheme of things this is a relatively low number of coins (I&#039;d guess 10% or less).&nbsp; How we got to this point is an interesting discussion, but not particularly germane to understanding today&#039;s market grading, IMO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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