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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 420178, member: 15309"]GD,</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can't consider the possibility that what you are seeing in a crappy photo is toning rather than wear, when nobody else sees wear on this coin, including the 4 members of PCGS, then I can't help you. I also could not help you see why my MS68 was not infact an MS66 as you concluded, even with a very informative thread that won TOTW.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS & NGC do make mistakes, no doubt. However, I feel confident that the graders at NGC are able to determine the difference between a weak strike Morgan and an AU Morgan. I can count the number of coins on one hand that I have seen over/undergrade by 3 or more points by either of these services. You have pointed out 2 severely overgraded NGC coins in one week. I don't think that is coincidental.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will agree with your contradiction of an NGC/PCGS assigned grade only when you can point to specific and definitive reasons why their grade is wrong. In this case, what you are calling wear, could very easily be toning that looks like wear in a terrible photo. Furthermore, if you really think that you can accurately grade a coin from a photo as well as the professional graders who have the coin in hand, then you my friend are the one who will be making the big mistake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 420178, member: 15309"]GD, If you can't consider the possibility that what you are seeing in a crappy photo is toning rather than wear, when nobody else sees wear on this coin, including the 4 members of PCGS, then I can't help you. I also could not help you see why my MS68 was not infact an MS66 as you concluded, even with a very informative thread that won TOTW. PCGS & NGC do make mistakes, no doubt. However, I feel confident that the graders at NGC are able to determine the difference between a weak strike Morgan and an AU Morgan. I can count the number of coins on one hand that I have seen over/undergrade by 3 or more points by either of these services. You have pointed out 2 severely overgraded NGC coins in one week. I don't think that is coincidental. I will agree with your contradiction of an NGC/PCGS assigned grade only when you can point to specific and definitive reasons why their grade is wrong. In this case, what you are calling wear, could very easily be toning that looks like wear in a terrible photo. Furthermore, if you really think that you can accurately grade a coin from a photo as well as the professional graders who have the coin in hand, then you my friend are the one who will be making the big mistake.[/QUOTE]
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