I agree with a hit/scratch due to raised metal along and parallel to the anomaly. I also see the left hand side of the upper right serif of "N"...
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I'm always happy to see a new attribution guide. From you, I would expect it to be all we would need or want.
"They", i.e. ANA did not leave those grades off. I did because I didn't think they added anything to the discussion. Most folks are not at all...
Quite true that there are special marketing labels for modern bulk products. But my OP specifically restricted the question to circulated grades...
The table I showed in my OP (reproduced below) is directly from the 7th edition of the ANA Grading Guide. It doesn't contain any *'s or +'s....
I think it is AU-55 cleaned. But it will probably straight-grade at AU-58. I have seen early gold with much more wear grade at AU-55. Quite a...
Just to clarify for anyone that might be confused about my meaning - I am not advocating going to a continuous number system nor changing from the...
Yes, my point exactly. But as you point out, nothing is absolute. All markets are made up of a multitude of different characteristics. The...
I think it all comes down to protecting the dealers (my apologies if I ding anyone with this) from having to explain why they are asking MS-63...
Sorry, the grading scales did not format properly when I pasted them in from Word. Here it is properly formatted. [ATTACH]
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