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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 7852928, member: 105098"]But you do need to delineate uncirculated from circulated with coins. Theres a difference, a difference collectors and buyers want and has been there in grading forever now. If a coin shows any signs of wear it should not make MS or grade above 58. Doesn't matter if its minor, circulation wear is circulation wear and it's no longer "uncirculated" if you can detect circulation wear. PCGS should buy the grossly overgraded coin from the collector and take it off the market.It's not simply a 63 that slid to 64, it's a circulated coin that they graded mid uncirculated and that's not a product of market grading, It isn't a 58 they graded as a 60. The way the grading scale works is up to 60 are for circulated grades, 60 and above are for uncirculated grades.  Its always been like that and uncirculated coins always commanded a premium because they were more desirable to collectors. Its ingrained in the hobby. If you buy a 58 or lower you know going into it it's not uncirculated, and if you buy 60 and above it is uncirculated. Sure there are nicer AUs the MS 60 and even higher, but those AUs are circulated and will never be uncirculated again. And TPGs provide a service, a person pays for an opinion on the grade. They are fallible they make mistakes. Even professionals make errors.[/QUOTE]