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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 1259597, member: 31533&quot;]Ok, but I will have to see the article, because from what is presented here, and what I have seen on the web with the coin grader&#039;s web-site and some of their ancillary pages, I am not impressed with them for this or grading other coins. Or their stated practices on what they will do with a coin that is sent to them for grading. There are a huge number of non-top-tier tpg&#039;s and many have questionable grading. I can&#039;t really commit to saying this is not a MS state coin, but my first inclination is that it is not a MS-65 quality that could be comparable to prices that MS-65 coins graded by the top two grading services will realize, and that if it was sent to either of them it would not come in at that grade. It&#039;s not one I would want to buy sight unseen just because of the grade on it. Obviously that is my considered opinion and I&#039;m not pushing it on you, since my grading capabilities are currently limited.</p><p><br /></p><p>I, however, know that this coin, as it&#039;s been presented has no hub-doubling (i.e., &quot;doubled-die&quot;) on it. As I said before, I know that if I was collecting examples of this kind of doubling, I would be over-run with coins without much effort, and it would be a waste of my money to store those examples just for that. They are IMO best sent back into circulation. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can, however, believe what you want to believe. Many people do and I have no hope I will change someone in that way. Most all people operate according to their belief systems, whether right or wrong. But if you are given a chance to have knowledge shared with you and done so on a basis of knowledgeable people with numerous specialties on a forum where we all contribute, and you pass it up because it doesn&#039;t fit into your current beliefs, well then, to me that&#039;s not a smart move. </p><p><br /></p><p>And if you take this as me being your judge and jury, well, that&#039;s not true. I don&#039;t think I have judged you as a person. I have IMO made no horrible comments about you as a person. And when you came back to say you were here to learn, I welcomed you heartily. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, I will definitely be on the lookout for Ken Potter&#039;s articles, with a particular focus on finding out what he has said about this TPG, because he is a highly-respected numismatist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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