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Simplifying the Grading Scale

It looks to me that to get a real 65-rated note you have to buy a 66-graded note. The prices between 65 and 66 notes a while back showed very little price difference. Today, those prices are getting farther apart. It reminds me of Buffalo nickel grading, slowly eroding, and I don’t believe it is good

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