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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rld14, post: 561703, member: 16133&quot;]Luster means a lot with regards to TPG grading of SLQs, these coins don&#039;t have big areas on the obverse where marks can detract, and due to their size bag marks aren&#039;t as big of an issue as they are with, say, Morgans.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What is an issue, is subdued or impaired luster from these guys going swimming in dip too many times, these coins DO tone, but have a bad tendency to tone in ways that, shall we say, lack eye appeal of other issues.&nbsp; So you&#039;ll get them with nasty toning, they get dipped, and dipped, and dipped.&nbsp; I have 62s and 63s that, if they weren&#039;t overdipped would be 65+s.&nbsp; I have a 1919 in a Gen holder that comes to mind, it&#039;s a really nice coin, no rub, and a neat reverse lamination on the wing of the eagle and it should be at LEAST a 64FH, really a 65FH, but it&#039;s so overdipped that there&#039;s no cartwheel luster left.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So if you see one with blazing luster, no marks... and even if it&#039;s a weak strike, you can see them in 66+ holders, the market assumes SLQs to be weakly struck and that the razor sharp coins, especially on dates that are notrious for lousy strikes (27-S) bring HUGE premiums.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The 27-S is a great example, not only is it a key date, ESPECIALLY in higher grade, but they are also probably the most poorly struck coins in the series, I don&#039;t ever recall seeing a pic of one that was truly a fully struck example, the handful of known FHs have crappy strikes on Liberty&#039;s torso and the eagle&#039;s wings, etc...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s like I said earlier, a weakly struck 17-P T1 will get savaged by, say, PCGS, and that&#039;s as it should, those coins come VERY well struck as we all know, heck, I want to buy a non-FH example and can&#039;t seem to find a weakly struck one.&nbsp; Meanwhile, take a 27-S... if a 65FH that was FULLY struck showed up, I could see that being a $250k+ coin easily and I would expect that it would be a 63 or 64 coin in a 65 holder.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Besides that, except for the SLIGHTEST HINT of rub, these coins are pretty easy to spot with rub on the leg, it&#039;s such a small device on the coin and so well rounded that any slight wear is pretty easy to spot if you&#039;re familiar with them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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