grade resolution - MS vs AU

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• MidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 20, 2010 11:36AM

  Marketing...The price increases between MS grades.

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• Aegis3 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭

  March 20, 2010 11:37AM

  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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• TomB Posts: 22,090 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 20, 2010 11:39AM

  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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• TomB Posts: 22,090 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 20, 2010 11:41AM

  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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  In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
  
  

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• ecichlid Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭

  March 20, 2010 11:43AM

  
  
  << <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.

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

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• 19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭

  March 20, 2010 2:24PM

  
  
  << <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!

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• Southcounty Posts: 681 ✭✭✭✭

  March 20, 2010 2:27PM

  I wonder how much more someone would pay for an AU52 versus and AU51???

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• BECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭

  March 20, 2010 3:53PM

  
  
  << <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.

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• Raybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 20, 2010 4:24PM

  
  
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  << <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! >>
  
  
  
  lyds......who the heck is that in your new avitar?

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