The rims are usually the best diagnostic
oh my... it's a Matte Proof. You might want to do a little reading about these.
most coins that people post asking this question are not even close. This one could be , but should be authenticated.
many don't know how to tell the difference between an actual MS-65 and an MS-66, let alone one good for the grade and poor for the grade.
Rick, is the doubling mostly in the date? Because if not, I am lost in this field
but Kurt... there's free food...
more like Pie In The Sky Net Grading Service
I’ll say it again, you can keep dividing grades and subdividing grades until the cows come home. You’ll never run out of numbers for the right...
Maybe those are the only coins that deserved a plus grade. If they graded every coin in the past 12 months then your conclusion would make...
You caught it yourself... it means that you’re learning!
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Very convenient of you to leave out his career as an engineer for Boeing before his attempt at comedy. He is a scientist. Whether or not you like...
I would attribute that photo of AU-59 to a typo. No such grade exists.
you're reading way more into my comments than I ever said. The TPGs market grade. That much you have characterized correctly, the rest, is not...
The TPGs haven't used technical grading for years. They use market grading.
if that was how they happen, the story might be funnier... I don't understand (except for the OCDish nature of collectors in general) why this is...
What I stated is fact. It is not opinion, and it is not overblown. Many people don't understand this fact, but it is nonetheless fact. That's...
While precision is a good thing, not everything can be quantified. Grading is still subjective. At a certain point, subdividing doesn't serve a...
Granted, yes, Kurt, but as soon as you establish a grade there will be coins that grade on either the high or low side of that grade and in so...
likely those two are the most by volume because of crack out re-submissions trying for 65s and 70s
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