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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 2091015, member: 73489&quot;]<b><span style="color: #0000ff">I think we are splitting hairs here, folks.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>When I see guys on another forum talking about buying MS-65 $20 Saint-Gaudens closer to &quot;65.8&quot; which are likely to be re-christened MS-66 or given CAC, it&#039;s getting nutty.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I have said, I&#039;m not a coin expert but I do know history.&nbsp; And decades ago before the TPGs you would have coins that might be misgraded on average 3-5 grades -- consistently !!</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, if a coin is off by 1 grade -- and that&#039;s a minority of graded coins -- that&#039;s a HUGE improvement.&nbsp; And it is NOT the case that coins will continually be re-submitted and in 30 years all we will have from the MS category is a bunch of MS-62&#039;s in MS-65 slabs and a bunch of MS-65&#039;s in MS-68 slabs.<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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