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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1208183, member: 112&quot;]Yes your scenarios are possible - but for how many times ? And just how many high MS grade coins do you think even exist ? Do you have any idea of what the odds are that a coin can last for 50, 100, 150 years and still remain high MS grade ? Before you strart thinking about that possibility consider - </p><p><br /></p><p>1 - for well over a century it was standard practice for collectors to harshly clean their coins. And once harshly cleaned that coin will no longer grade MS anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>2 - ever since the advent of the coin album in the 1930&#039;s the album has been the single most popular method used by colelctors for storage. And only in recent years have archival albums been made, so all of those albums made previously caused harm to the coins more often than not in one way or another - think of fingerprints, slide marks, glue on the pages etc etc. Thus reducing the coins to less an even mid MS grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>3 - only for the past 25 years or so have there been storage methods available that could protect a coin long term. And only a small percentage of collectors ever used proper storage methods over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p>4 - and last but not least, only a very, very small percentage of coins are ever even minted that qualify for high MS grades. And all of the things, and more, that I have listed above reduce that percentage every single day.</p><p><br /></p><p>So - those things considered, how many high MS grade coins can there even be ?</p><p><br /></p><p>What conder and medoraman are saying is correct ! But because people want to believe that the coins they own can be and are high grade - they convenienty choose to ignore those facts because it makes it possible for them to believe what they want to believe.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sure we can, some of us can anyway. The thing is, few if anybody else will take our word for it. But they will take the word of the TPGs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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