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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2524841, member: 112&quot;]What&#039;s the plus grade mean ? In simplest terms it&#039;s easy - plus = close, but no cigar.</p><p><br /></p><p>What a lot of people don&#039;t seem to get and never have is from the very beginning of grading there have always been grades within grades. In other words you could have 5 coins all graded 64, but each one of them is just a little bit nicer than the others. Knowledgeable collectors and dealers, and yes even the TPGs, have always known this - it&#039;s nothing new. It is the very reason why there is and always has been a price range, sometimes a widely varied price range, for any given coin in any given grade instead just 1 set price for all of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>So why did the TPGs suddenly start using plus grades on coins ? Easy answer, money. It provided them with a way to get people to submit coins already graded and slabbed all over again in hope of getting a plus grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now did these knowledgeable collectors and dealers know this ? Yes, of course they knew it. But they also knew that the bread and butter, the very backbone of the coin market, is and always has been sustained by those who DO NOT know. In other words, the plastic buyers do and always have far outnumbered the knowledgeable. So the knowledgeable take advantage of these people. They go right along with the TPGs, knowing that because the plastic has something &quot;new&quot; on it, the coin will now sell for more to all of those who don&#039;t, and never did, know any better. The knowledgeable know that the size of their target market just got increased exponentially by that itty bitty plus sign on the plastic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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