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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 1081674, member: 6036"]True. There is a general rumor that OGH are better. This is promulgated by those who feel grading standards have slipped. But here's the major flaw in that reasoning. Let's assume grading standards have slipped, meaning that today's slabs tend to have a higher grade then the same coin might have received in the old days. But even back then, some coins were overgraded by the standard of the day, putting them at a par with (or even substandard to) today's grading. And here's the key - since the rumor says OGHs tend to be great candidates for an upgrade, thousands of people have looked at OGHs and picked out the best. Those have already been cracked out and submitted. Only a small fraction of the original OGHs remain, and they are the remnants after the best were picked over. That means that the few which survive tend to be the weakest of the original stash. If they were strong candidates for upgrade, they would have been submitted by now. The exception is tightly held coins seeing the market for the first time in decades as old collections are sold.[/QUOTE]