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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1439822, member: 15929&quot;]I think your book is either wrong or you&#039;ve misread it as graders assign &quot;grades&quot;, not values since &quot;values&quot; are directly related to grade and, generally speaking, are relative to the selling media.</p><p><br /></p><p>IF a grader were assigning a &quot;value&quot;, then that value would have to be based upon something which more than likely is what the grader would pay. Cross referencing that &quot;value&quot; would then haveto go against some scale and every body knows that the TPG scales are just simply screwed up.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I think happens is that graders assign and then agree upon a grade. The coin gets graded and then sells. The TPG&#039;s then track what the coin sells for and records that data for the {rice Guide.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it were the ther way around (i.e. value before grade) then moderns and new releases would all be no grades since values have not been established for them. Take into account that &quot;graded populations&quot; play a big factor in modern coin prices/values and the premise of value before grade goes right out the window.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, to respond to the question: I would buy the highest grade that I could afford.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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