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Message:: [QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 1445186, member: 15309"]To my knowledge, the TV hucksters sold mostly ICG and ANACS.  What I am saying is that the popularity of the state quarter program in combination with the explosion of registries is a more likely cause of the change in those population reports than a change in grading standard.  If a change in grading standard was the cause and the number of submissions is not the cause, then you would have to examine the populations of the MS68 & PF68 coins as well.  All those numbers show is that a whole bunch of proof sets were submitted for grading in 2003.  That in itself does not prove that a change in grading standards is what caused the drastic increase in submissions.  In today's market, you get many large submissions of moderns with the expectation that the MS70's and PF70's pay for the venture.  This data seems to suggest that 2003 was the start of that strategy.  But again, I don't really care about the modern market or the grading standards for modern coins.  As far as I am concerned, they are all widgets.[/QUOTE]