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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 469360, member: 66&quot;]And they would have to know WHEN the particular coins they were looking at were slabbed.&nbsp; If they were receiving them directly from the grading service they would know that, but if they are looking at slabs in the marketplace or pieces being brought to them they would not know.&nbsp; So if you are comparing a &quot;now&quot; coin to a &quot;then&quot; coin, but can&#039;t say when &quot;Then&quot; was.&nbsp; How can you say what is happening?&nbsp; Then may have been two years ago, or it may have been last week. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only time when it come close to having any validity is when you are comparing coins from two widely separated generations of slab.&nbsp; But then there are other factor that have to be included.&nbsp; High end resubmissions that tend to lower the average quality of coins remaining in older slabs, or fresh material that ha recently come back on the market which hasn&#039;t been cherried and runs higher quality than average. </p><p><br /></p><p>Factors such as these make it very difficult to truly track changes in standards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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