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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chip, post: 615435, member: 19122&quot;]chip, like me, you will adjust to the current grading standards. In 1963 there&nbsp; was no grade of AU, let alone a series of Mint State grades. Much has changed, (to quote a Beatles song) some for better, some forever. </p><p><br /></p><p>very true. a coin was either circulated or it wasnt, but back before the mint was as scrupulous in handling coins as they seem to have become many uncirculated coins were marked and dinged, I have found coins in circulation that had as clear fields as many uncirculated coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;The 70 point system is imo an improvement, but I think that the ms70 coin should be an ideal a theoretical perfect coin that even the best looking coins fall a bit short of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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