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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 3308899, member: 1765&quot;]Sort of.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Common date Saints often get graded in bulk, where they&#039;re not seen by as many graders as the rare dates submitted at higher service tiers.&nbsp; For the typical grades, there are ton of coins with the common dates.&nbsp; A few of these will be high end, and you&#039;ll never see these, as they&#039;re set aside for special buyers or crackouts.&nbsp; A few are really nice, and you have to cherrypick through lots of other coins for these.&nbsp; The rest (most) are mediocre and low-end coins which are put into the face of the marketplace as soon as possible.&nbsp; The low-end mistakes are blown out to wholesalers and sold on TV and through fancy advertising.&nbsp; The presence of quantities of mediocre and low-end coins sets the tone for what a particular grade should look like, even though the high-end and really nice coins aren&#039;t seen</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare dates don&#039;t get the same treatment by those submitting and selling them.&nbsp; They&#039;re not submitted in bulk, and the grading services have a bigger downside liability on a grade guarantee, so getting that big dollar bump in grade isn&#039;t as likely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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