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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 961863, member: 112&quot;]My comment has nothing to do with what the&nbsp; mint is or is not cranking out. In fact my comment has absolutely nothing to do with the mint, or the coins for that matter. </p><p><br /></p><p>Quite simply I am saying that the TPGs have loosened their standards. As a result of that loosening, in the past 3-4 years there have been many, many more 67, 68, 69, and 70 coins graded than there ever were in all of the previous combined years.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example - 5 years ago you would have found that the population number for a given date/mint Lincoln in 69 was 0. Today that population is over 300. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now this is not because of anything the mint did. It is only because of what the TPGs did. The coins didn&#039;t change any from what they were 10 to 20 years ago. The grading standards changed and that is the only reason those coins in high grades exist today. </p><p><br /></p><p>10-20 years ago those very same coins would have been 65, 66 and maybe a 67. Today they are 67, 68 and 69&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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