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Message:: [QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1917441, member: 4626"]That "market grading" is not a myth, and that TPGs, just like any business, will make decisions based on what they perceive as good for their business. That being said, the grade has to theoretically exist, if the scale is 1 to 70 and not 1 to 69.  Because if a coin can't ever truly be a 70, then that makes 69 the top grade.  A coin can't truly be perfect, but "70" doesn't mean perfect (just very, very close). THAT being said, I think the price differential between a 69 and a 70 is a bit ridiculous considering how common 69-70 is with modern mint products, to the point where something slabbed as 68 is considered less desirable than that coin in its original packaging.  I just think, from a collecting perspective rather than an investing perspective, that I personally would rather spend that price difference on more coins than on the marginal, almost impossible to see, difference between a 69 and a 70. I rarely buy modern mint products on the secondary market if I can help it, unless I just missed something I wanted the first time around. So the smart time to buy something from the Mint, from a collecting perspective?  As soon as you can!  If it's a piece you really want and everyone else wants too, it's not going to get cheaper to wait.  If it doesn't sell out at least you get it a lot faster. From an investing perspective?  To be honest, don't know, don't care.  Read my signature lol.[/QUOTE]