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grade resolution - MS vs AU

ecichlidecichlid Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭
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AU grades
50, 55, 58

MS grades
60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70

Why are there more than three times as many MS grades as AU grades?


There is no "AT" or "NT". We only have "market acceptable" or "not market acceptable.

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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Marketing...The price increases between MS grades.
  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭
    Because MS grades cost more; there's more price space to invent new grades, no matter how indifferentiable they are from the old grades.
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  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,090 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The hobby-industry is willing to accomodate the additional MS grades and is happy to provide values for the grades. By the way, there is also an AU53 grade.
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  • TomBTomB Posts: 22,090 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A different way to think of your question is to wonder why there are eleven grades for mint state coins (MS60-MS70) while there are nineteen grades for circulated coins (PO01-AU58).
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  • ecichlidecichlid Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭


    << <i>A different way to think of your question is to wonder why there are eleven grades for mint state coins (MS60-MS70) while there are nineteen grades for circulated coins (PO01-AU58). >>



    Good point.

    I forgot AU-53.image
    There is no "AT" or "NT". We only have "market acceptable" or "not market acceptable.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The hobby-industry is willing to accomodate the additional MS grades and is happy to provide values for the grades. By the way, there is also an AU53 grade. >>



    I wanna get the first AU-51! I bet it would sell for a ton of money! image
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  • SouthcountySouthcounty Posts: 681 ✭✭✭✭
    I wonder how much more someone would pay for an AU52 versus and AU51???
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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭


    << <i>AU grades
    50, 55, 58

    MS grades
    60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70

    Why are there more than three times as many MS grades as AU grades? >>

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    Well, technically there is only 1 more grade. 50-59 for AU and 60-70 for MS. Because wear is uneven and never in exactly the same way it has been standardized to lump the AU in to grade ranges. With MS there is no wear only damage from stacking or being hit by other coins in a bag. Much easier to count marks than it is to define AU wear to a number.

    AU53 is also used quite a bit since 50-55 is such a big range. I Have a few 53's.
  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>The hobby-industry is willing to accomodate the additional MS grades and is happy to provide values for the grades. By the way, there is also an AU53 grade. >>



    I wanna get the first AU-51! I bet it would sell for a ton of money! image >>



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