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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 2161704, member: 4920&quot;]John, I asked Dan, and he powdered on it, so I&#039;ll ask you. How can that &#039;89, if it&#039;s indeed in uncirculated condition, go only MS61? If it&#039;s indeed uncirculated, it goes MS64, at bottom, MS63. The grading scale isn&#039;t a continuum, but rather an abrupt switch in criteria, once you&#039;re beyond evaluating on the basis of wear. Technically, if that coin has no wear, and that &quot;roughness&quot; is just an attribute of the state of the die, i.e., it isn&#039;t PMD, or anything like that, that&#039;s no MS61.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I&#039;m just misunderstanding market grading. Is that what market grading is, it overlooks the technical grade and penalizes the die state, just for the market, i.e., the money? Should these market grades rather have dollar signs on them, i.e., $MS61, to more accurately reflect that&#039;s what in fact these TPGs are doing with this, um, what used to be a, &quot;hobby?&quot; If so, why don&#039;t they just say it, get it off their chest, instead of conning us into thinking they&#039;re grading? We spend a lot of time in these GTG threads taking them seriously, like they&#039;re really grading. If they&#039;re really appraising, we&#039;re wasting our time. Guess how much money this coin costs? Guess how much money this coin can sell for? And we&#039;re encouraging YNs to waste their money on grading classes for that? They ought to be taking marketing and appraisal classes, they want to know how to guess market grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, market grading does penalize it for the die state, doesn&#039;t it? Why? Just because the TPGs feel like it. It&#039;s like when a coin gets detailed for color. Just because the TPGs feel like it. They have no criteria for AT/NT, they can&#039;t even define those terms. There are no criteria. Just money. We&#039;re just not ready to face that, yet, so we have to go on and on conning ourselves they&#039;re going on grading criteria. Ah, I&#039;m sorry, end of rant. Have other things to waste my time on, as in, i.e., a job, than guessing how much money a TPG will say a coin is worth in their market in their plastic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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