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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kirkuleez, post: 1838460, member: 36864&quot;][quote =&quot;Rick Stachowski, post: 1838420, member: 42872&quot;]you mean detailed, which with pcgs has no grade, or pop. report either[/quote]</p><p>I don&#039;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.&nbsp; 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.</p><p>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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; So this coin may read AU-50 OC.&nbsp; What a coin utopia it would be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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