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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Luckydas, post: 2328361, member: 69762&quot;]Yes, TPG coin grading is subjective, and plagued by the vagueness in deciding just exactly what kinds of impairments call for a &quot;details&quot; condemnation. And it seems capricious for the TPGs to sometimes slab a coin as &quot;details&quot;, and at other times to net grade a similar coin at a lower numerical level, as in this case. The coin was previously &quot;AU details, improperly cleaned&quot;. Now it is &quot;VF-35&quot;. Both are similar price values, but they say quite different things about the perceived quality of the coin. The guidance thus communicated is quite muddled and ambiguous. Is this a &quot;nice, original 35&quot; or a &quot;crappy, abused 50&quot; ? It seems that it is neither, so a net grade is an odd designation imho. </p><p><br /></p><p>After all is said and done, I like the coin better with the artificial toning.</p><p>So, was the &quot;coin doctoring&quot; a bad thing? It is certainly deceptive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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