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Message:: [QUOTE="19Lyds, post: 2267804, member: 15929"]I'd always felt that the coin should have graded 68-69. Upon its discovery, it was sent to the IKE Group who then forwarded it to ANACS for attribution. James Wiles ended up attributing the new Obverse Die Variety and Doubling and new Reverse Die Variety as "Mixed Relief" DDO-023, ODV-010, RDV-007 and ANACS slabbed it as such with a PF64 grade. (??) Tom Delorey (aka CaptHenway) validated it as a Prototype Strike. [ATTACH=full]451380[/ATTACH] I questioned the grade and was told that "Proofs" have different standards than "Business Strikes" and since it was being called a "Proof" yet had no frost nor mirrored fields, was limited to a maximum of 64. I sat on the coin for a couple of years and then took it to a Long Beach Coin and Collectibles show for the "Have a PCGS Expert Look at your Coins" which PCGS has at every one of their shows. David Hall examined the coin and agreed that it was indeed special so it was submitted at the show and later examined by other well known PCGS experts. I received the SP65+ grade as they did not consider it a proof but more of a "Special Strike' coin. After receiving the grade I emailed them to look again since I felt that 65+ was simply too low. The response I received from Gordon Wrubel was as follows: "Our top graders thought 65, but went along with my plus suggestion due to the special look of its surfaces.   What kept us from a higher grade was the opaque film over contact on the forehead, hair, high cheekbone and lower jaw; a few contact marks on “WE” and the tip of the bust: a scattering of smaller spots on either side; and an environmental film about the peripheries."[/QUOTE]

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