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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 2143603, member: 4920&quot;]Let the record reflect, I&#039;m seeing it in much this same way, and I&#039;m not even an experienced dealer. I&#039;m an experienced collector, however, and I know what turns me on. And one thing I&#039;ve learned over the years is, I&#039;m disappointed, every time, when I buy a coin for the grade on the label, in preference to a lower-grade coin that&#039;s just plumb yards better in terms of <i>eye-movement</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let it suffice, I understand, all too well, what&#039;s meant when we reference an AU58 as &quot;AU64.&quot; The coin is just that much better than MS60, MS61, indeed, in a number of the cases, better than MS62, even MS63. The same, exact, collector-rationale, here, in evaluating this coin&#039;s value. Yesterday I had double-checked the MS65s on Heritage, and, at a better grade, in RD, as opposed to RB. I couldn&#039;t find one without distracting, black carbon spots on it. Contrasted against that bright, lustered, RD background, those black carbon spots are like eye-magnets. From an experienced collector standpoint, trying to appreciate the coin, my eye is moving all over the place for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand the relationship between <i>eye-movement</i> and how I feel about a coin. I understand, for example, an MS66 Morgan Dollar, clean as a whistle, but with a bright, red toning spot on the nose, is a distorted <i>eye-movement </i>through that coin, for that red spot, which, in turn, negatively-affects my feelings on the coin. To feel real good about the coin, I have to take my eye off the red spot, off the coin, and put it on the grade on the label, &quot;MS66,&quot; and that just never worked for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d rather keep my eye on the coin. From a collector standpoint, I&#039;m collecting coins, not grades on labels. From an experienced standpoint, I understand the relationship between <i>eye-movement</i> through the coin, and my feelings on the coin, when I look at the coin, and I value coins with uninterrupted <i>eye-movement</i>, and, likewise, devalue coins with interrupted <i>eye-movement</i>. I understand what&#039;s meant when we reference AU58 as &quot;AU64.&quot; I value those AU58s, pretty much, accordingly. Same philosophy, same rationale, in valuing this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an issue, due to these lousy pictures. The coin is hard to evaluate for those. I&#039;m seeing, pretty much, flawlessness, whereas rlm&#039;s cents, another experienced collector, is seeing lusterless, dings and spots. Duh? We need better pictures. This is an SVDB. One doesn&#039;t evaluate it on lousy pictures. I rest my case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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