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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Reid Morgan, post: 4134806, member: 108339&quot;]Michael777, I am concerned about your use of a &quot;heavy duty&quot; digital scale which calibrates with a 50 gram weight. This does not sound like an appropriate scale with which to weigh a Kennedy half looking for a one gram difference. As several of us have pointed out on this thread, without an appropriate digital scale appropriately calibrated, submitting your coin to PCGS is probably going to be a waste of your time and money.</p><p><br /></p><p>But hey, my first two coins submitted to PCGS on 12/24/19 was a $7 quarter that did, in fact, turn out to be a FS-25-1943-103 that came back as an AU53 (Truview pic available on this thread if anyone cares to see it) The other was an $8 1955-D quarter I was SURE was an MS67 with the appropriately ridiculous PCGS Price Guide value. I insured both quarters as required by my self-valuation of these two quarters. I was happy with the graded result of my $7 &quot;Wonder Quarter&quot; and chagrined by the MS63 grading of my $8 &quot;Not So Wonderful Quarter&quot;. Clearly I could already cherry pick die varieties, but not grade to save my &quot;whatever&quot;. So I dusted my ego off for a minute or two and got to work on my grading skills. Mistakes are a necessary part in progressing as a person in general and in numismatics in particular. So I bought the $475 ANA correspondence course, and am attending the two day PCGS grading class in my hometown of Philly on March 26 &amp; 27. </p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever Michael777 chooses to do, based on this excrutiatingly too-long post, he will learn from the exerience. I&#039;m done on this thread unless Joe wants to engage me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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