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<p>[QUOTE="Morgandude11, post: 2287730, member: 37839"]So, which photo portrays the coin accurately? The first shows a coin with very prominent marks on the devices of the obverse. The second one is cleaner. Both show a proof like coin, but in the first one, the grade is no better than 63, due to one very obvious and two other less obvious but significant elongated bag marks. The second shows a 64PL coin. Nicks generally don't appear and disappear in the light--they are either there, or they aren't. I think the first picture probably got the actual surface of the coin more accurately, so I will say that you lucked out with a 64 grade. Nice coin, though--great strike and proof like surfaces. Good eye appeal, but from the first picture, which is closer in and more detailed--not a 64. The only other possibility would be a slab scratch, which would not show in diffuse light.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Morgandude11, post: 2287730, member: 37839"]So, which photo portrays the coin accurately? The first shows a coin with very prominent marks on the devices of the obverse. The second one is cleaner. Both show a proof like coin, but in the first one, the grade is no better than 63, due to one very obvious and two other less obvious but significant elongated bag marks. The second shows a 64PL coin. Nicks generally don't appear and disappear in the light--they are either there, or they aren't. I think the first picture probably got the actual surface of the coin more accurately, so I will say that you lucked out with a 64 grade. Nice coin, though--great strike and proof like surfaces. Good eye appeal, but from the first picture, which is closer in and more detailed--not a 64. The only other possibility would be a slab scratch, which would not show in diffuse light.[/QUOTE]
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