Actually, you didn’t play along, you had to cheat the grades to get your desired result even after you changed the weighting of the grading...
So even when you weight the elements of grading to be highly skewed towards surface preservation and barely account for eye appeal, the coin still...
It looks market acceptable to me. Besides, it’s an album coin that’s never getting graded. At this level and cost, just buy what you like.
What is so hard about assigning a number grade to each element of grading, and then accepting the resultant grade. Just because the TPGs happen...
I once owned a Morgan Dollar that had an almost identical color scheme. The obverse luster was muted and the coin did not deserve a star. Unless...
Again, you are ascribing to a grading philosophy that views flaws as grade limiting. My grading philosophy mirrors the TPG method which grades...
That's my point, it happened so early, and the changes were so drastic that it couldn't be considered watering down. It was an adjustment made by...
And those admissions are specifically related to the grading during the early years of the TPGs. They categorized it as growing pains basically....
Not sure why this thread isn't getting any traction, but I'm gonna leave it up a few more days before I reveal.
What are you talking about? "extra credit"? That is the whole point of market grading. If the luster and eye appeal are MS67-68 level, as they...
That’s because I don’t juice my photos or make extreme contrast adjustments.
I'm telling you that it was submitted to CAC, you need to decide if it stickered at the assigned grade that you choose.
Key word in that sentence is "was". The coin in question isn't an MS64, not now, not 50 years ago, not ever.
I believe that they are remnant planchet roughness, and they are extremely minor. Although the appear prominent in my photo, they are virtually...
The coin isn't overgraded, and your attempt to call this coin an MS64 is nothing more than an indictment of your own grading skills.
Please guess the assigned grade of this PCGS Franklin Half Dollar and vote in the attached poll. Thank you! [img] As always, comments welcome!
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Btw, here is the TruView. [img]
[img] I think this coin illustrates that some collectors view surface marks as grade limiters, and are unwilling to market grade such coins even...
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