[quote ="Rick Stachowski, post: 1838420, member: 42872"]you mean detailed, which with pcgs has no grade, or pop. report either[/quote] I don't mean details, when I say that a coin was market graded, I am referring to the practice that grading companies use to assign a value to a coin by giving a coin a numeric grade rather than grading the coin based on condition. This has been a practice that has been going on for years, just look at St. Gaudens double eagles, these coins are seldom properly graded in my opinion. The whole purpose of grading companies is to authenticate the coin and assign it a grade to which a person could buy a coin site unseen. Though you can still do this, I would prefer that they would use a number grade based on wear, or in the case of MS coins, contact marks and use a suffix to describe any former cleanings, scratches, environmental damage, artificial toning etc. So this coin may read AU-50 OC. What a coin utopia it would be.
heres the way that pcgs handle st. gaudens with detail coins, I know, I own one COIN INFORMATION Cert Verification #: 16076465 PCGS Coin #: 9156 Date, mintmark: 1910-S Denomination: $20 Country: The United States of America Grade: Genuine (98 - Damage) Mintage: 2,128,250 Holder Type: Standard Population: N/A
Why don't you just show us the slab, so we can see what going on, is it graded xf, or xf detailed, who graded it, what their standards are, and so on
I don't have an image of the slab, and it is in my SDB now, but it is a NGC XF-45. I am very well aware of how PCGS and NGC grade coins and have been a serious collector for over thirty years. I just don't agree with some of their practices, though I do consider them a great asset to the hobby, especially for newcomers.
