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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3553422, member: 46237&quot;]In many cases, yes. The uniformity of modern coinage can make date sets rather boring and thus to add challenge to a set you can go for a target minimum grade. Some people assemble grade sets where they want an example of each grade for a particular type or date.</p><p><br /></p><p>In many cases, people just want the best grade they can afford. For moderns, the high availability of MS70s for many issues has made even 69s practically worthless.</p><p><br /></p><p>That wasn&#039;t my main point, however. For classic US coins, most type collectors are satisfied with just having a nice eye-appealing coin for type. But if for a certain classic issue it&#039;s shown that there are extremely few survivors above MS66, the few MS67 examples have fierce competition from the pool of well-heeled collectors that are going for a highest graded set. This is just a matter of high demand for the top grade coins with a very low supply, which is why I refer to it as a market correction for coins where the true scarcity of those top grades is revealed by the census data.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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