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Message:: [QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 2088582, member: 73489"]I think the possibility exists in the SHORT-TERM but it can't continue indefinitely.  If your scenario occurs, then in theory all MS-64's and MS-65's will be MS-68's or higher, it's just a matter of time. The Wayne Gretzky Theory applies here:  when Gretzky made $900K a year for Edmonton, it was a de facto salary cap.  No other player DARED ask for more $$$. Same thing with the pristine coins that are already graded MS-68 or higher.  Unless they are going up to MS-69 or MS-70, they are an effective ceiling for the coins 2-4 grades lower. We are seeing gradeflation in the LOWER MS's and AU's and maybe below....but you will NOT -- can not !! -- see low- and mid-60's continually going up, up, and away. Not sure what you mean by this but again, we are RELATIVELY YOUNG in the history of TPGs -- they've been around less than 30 years, coin collecting has been going on for 100 years -- so I think limits eventually come into play. I wonder if Wayne Gretzky is a coin collector ?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]