Can Anyone Explain This?

Looking through my collection I came across one that I'd forgotten about.
Can anyone see ANY justification for this coin being graded as it is?

 

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I'd assume that considering that is not natural wear and a grease strike-through, PCGS assigned that grade.

 

kanga:
probably submitted by someone who was not in the 'in crowd'.

 

kanga:

Is your opinion that the coin is undergraded or overgraded, because to me it seems to be graded appropriately.

A struck through grease error but yet a gem coin with full steps, not a choice gem because of the struck through error, but 65 appears to me to be accurately graded.

That said, I don't think I would want this coin simply for lack of detail, but I don't think that a lot of people would dismiss this coin out of hand.

 

IMO, it's overgraded.
It may be "full steps" (I'll have to dig it out and take a close look. I believe PCGS starts the "FS" notation when there's at least 5 steps.)
But to me a "struck through" like this one doesn't deserve a MS-65 rating.