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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1254809, member: 31533&quot;]Yes, I did learn this from his video. I found it fascinating. Definitely worth it to watch if you have interest in something that may add MS points to a coin (and hence, cost/value) because it has this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as with the way the grades are now (no longer technical, but market grading... i.e., graded for the Value of the coin), a MA coin doesn&#039;t neccessarily mean that it is NT. The TPG may have felt that it was a coin that had value to not be nit-picked over whether the toning was NT or AT. Or both graders may have been influenced by the toning and made it MA instead of body-bagging it. </p><p><br /></p><p>You are right, the best thing to do is educate what the TPGs are doing.&nbsp; And that they are or may be grading coins that are high value as MA when a lower or common coin would not be handled that way. It is market-driven, and to their best interests to make a market driven choice. But when you as a collector (or investor) comes across a coin that is like that, are you willing to pay the premium because you like the coin (pleasure in it) or because you believe that in the future this will stand and you will be able to sell at the same premium, grading-wise? Or will you discount it to a price a point or 2 lower and buy it at that price? In other words would you put it on the low scale of that grade and price accordingly?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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