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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 874108, member: 66&quot;]True, but trying to come up with real standards for eleven different levels of a grade whose major distiction it that it has no wear.&nbsp; The only thing s you can use to try and establish standards for those eleven levels (eighteen now that we have&nbsp; the Plus) is by quality of strike and the number, size, and placement of contact marks.&nbsp; I see no way to quantify marks since they can come in any size, or number and their placement on the coin also affects the grade as well&nbsp; and then if you could develop standards for marks you can then have all different levels of sharpness of strike for all those mark standards.&nbsp; I just don&#039;t see how you can actually write out distinct standards for the VERY subjective determination of the eleven (eighteen) levels of MS.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are the percentages in the early years roughly the same as the percentages in the late years?&nbsp; I ask because this is what tripped up Sheldon.&nbsp; Over a 25 to 30 year period he found that the percentage between held constant and he thought he had discovered a way to establish the prices of early large cents.&nbsp; All you had to do was determine the price for the lowest grade and the percentages would take care of pricing all the rest of the grades.&nbsp; The problem was that later as collecting became more popular the growing number of collectors naturally chased the better grades more heavily than the lower grades.&nbsp; The extra demand for the smaller population of better grade coins caused them to rise in price faster and it screwed up the percentages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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