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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2088622, member: 73489&quot;]Touche.....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>But seriously, you&#039;re not saying that we&#039;re going to keep seeing gradeflation ad infinitum are you&nbsp; ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me use the Saint Gaudens Double Eagles as an example (popular coin and one I am somewhat familiar with).&nbsp; You have that $4 million PR-69 1907 EXR.&nbsp; It looks flawless.&nbsp; It may have been an MS-68 years ago, I forget.&nbsp; Whatever, it&#039;s an MS-69 right now.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #4d4dff">No way you can have a coin like my MS-65&#039;s (pics on this site) graded up to MS-67.</span></b>&nbsp; Because the MS-66&#039;s and MS-67&#039;s today would have to be rated up to the MS-69...and even an IDIOT LIKE ME can see that 2 coins, one near-flawless and the other with anywhere from 5-10 markings/bag hits/whatever cannot POSSIBLY have the same grade (assuming toning or other BS doesn&#039;t come into play). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #4d4dff">What if my coin goes to MS-66 (like to think so, but probably unlikely)? </span></b> OK...then sits in a holder for 10 years...I wait for Gradeflation like store owners in the 1970&#039;s waited for Jimmy Carter&#039;s double-digit inflation<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.....and then I submit hoping for an MS-67?&nbsp; 1 notch below 68&#039;s and only 2 below that PR-69 1907 EHR Saint ?&nbsp; Unless the Coin Fairy snuck into the slab in the intervening years and erased a few marks a year, it isn&#039;t going to happen.&nbsp; And I don&#039;t think it will.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Look, Law of Large Numbers applies here.</b>&nbsp; It&#039;s easier to go up a few notches if you are in the AU, EF, or VF categories. Much less so if you are already MS.&nbsp; You have the Twin Ceilings of MS-70 (flawless) and MS-69 (nearly flawless, or you need to spend a minute or so studying the coin to see the flaw(s) if they exist). <b><span style="color: #00b359">They are our governing Speed Of Light -- can&#039;t be exceeded. </span></b><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My Gretzky Theory Lives !!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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