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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26061325, member: 101855&quot;]The grade on the piece should match the grade it actually is. Using the logic that the finest known or the only one known should be given an out of bounds grade is ridiculous. There are Sheldon varieties of large cents where the best one is VG with problems or something even lower. Are those pieces now “MS-65” because of their rarity and condition status? Of course not. </p><p><br /></p><p>This brings up another game the grading services and even CAC play. To get a famous rarity into their plastic, they up the grade, even though it’s a clear example of over grading. The coins in the King of Siam Proof set were an example of this. I think the coins started out PR-64s. Now they are PR-66. Either the coins got better over time, or marketing dictated that they got better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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