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<p>[QUOTE="Scuba4fun777, post: 8213838, member: 75199"]I hope your bid wasn’t the winner. Any coin not graded by NGC, PCGS, ANACS or ICG should always be purchased as “raw” or ungraded. Not to say these four always get it right, but they all have decent guarantees. </p><p>If I were a betting man, I’d guess it would grade as MS63 w/o an FBL designation. And that’s without even looking at the picture. </p><p>As John Burgess mentioned above, many non-top tier grading companies will over grade by 2-3 numbers. </p><p>Also, when determining FBL, PCGS only looks at the bottom set of lines, whereas NGC requires both sets of bell lines to be “Full” in order to receive the FBL designation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Scuba4fun777, post: 8213838, member: 75199"]I hope your bid wasn’t the winner. Any coin not graded by NGC, PCGS, ANACS or ICG should always be purchased as “raw” or ungraded. Not to say these four always get it right, but they all have decent guarantees. If I were a betting man, I’d guess it would grade as MS63 w/o an FBL designation. And that’s without even looking at the picture. As John Burgess mentioned above, many non-top tier grading companies will over grade by 2-3 numbers. Also, when determining FBL, PCGS only looks at the bottom set of lines, whereas NGC requires both sets of bell lines to be “Full” in order to receive the FBL designation.[/QUOTE]
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