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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1063275, member: 19423&quot;]Not saying that it is the case with this 1914, but sometimes PCGS and NGC will market grade very nice looking AU58 coins using the MS62 grade.&nbsp; This is especially true with semi-key and key date coins.&nbsp; So, if the coin looks like an MS64/MS65, but just has a tiny tiny bit of rub that can hardly be seen, it may end up in an MS62 holder instead of an AU58 holder that it technically belongs in.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>An additional possiblity is that on copper coins PCGS will knock a coin down pretty hard, especailly copper, for odd toning/spotting and usually limit the grade to a max of MS62 or maybe MS63.&nbsp; Hard to tell if it&#039;s just really exaggerated in the photo, but there is some red-purple spotting on the left wheat ear on the reverse of this 1914.&nbsp; Perhaps PCGS didn&#039;t like the look of this in hand?&nbsp; I know that sometimes purple-red colored spots on copper is evidence of corrosion and should be avoided, without seeing it in hand though it&#039;s hard to say whether that is a possiblity here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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