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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 419828, member: 112&quot;]Thank you for the compliment Eddie, but I make my share of mistakes too. In all honesty, I think the TPG did just that in this case - made a mistake. And I can understand why they would make such a mistake with this particular coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all, the coin is exceptionally clean, as I have said. Secondly, the O mint coins are known far and wide for being weakly struck. Thirdly, the TPG graders do not examine coins like this with magnification, they look at them with the naked eye. Fourth, a TPG grader spends about 6 seconds grading a coin like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now take all of those things into consideration, and yes, it would be quite easy to grade that coin as MS64. And if it were not for the, IMO, unsightly brown coloration on the reverse I have no doubt they would have said MS65.</p><p><br /></p><p>I noticed all the same things they did, but I had a blown up picture to examine and I didn&#039;t just spend 6 seconds determining my grade. It is quite normal for the hair to be flat around the ear on these coins. But the ear itself - unh uh, that is not flat and always shows luster. On this coin that is not the case and it caught my eye in the first few seconds because of the blown up pics - and that made me look closer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I will admit that my first inclination when looking at this coin was to say MS65, that was in the about the first 3 seconds. But then I saw the ear, grabbed my trusty large view glass and took a closer look. And if you take a closer look as I did, at those even more blown up pics that I posted of the hair, you can see a defining line that shows the difference between wear and a weak strike. That is easiest place there is to see it. That and the ear itself are what convinced me I was right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just about anybody on this or any other forum who knows me, knows that when I grade a coin I use the ANA standards, thus I tend to grade a little tougher than the TPG&#039;s because they do not use those standards. But I can grade like the TPG&#039;s do too, using their standards. And that&#039;s why I will often give my grade and what I think is their grade. And people who know me also know that I think for the most part that the TPG&#039;s do a pretty dang good job when it comes to grading. I&#039;ve even said that I feel they are accurate about 95% of the time - according to <u>their</u> standards. </p><p><br /></p><p>But there is that other 5% where they make mistakes. And this coin, I am reasonably certain, is in that 5% for the reasons I have explained.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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