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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 3299928, member: 31533&quot;][USER=100339]@gianni[/USER] I think you need to do a lot more studying. I can tell you that it takes a lot to learn to accurately grade coins in the MS scale. Your coin is no MS67, nor do I think it a MS65+. I am glad you enjoy your coin, but it is not that high a grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>Going by pics on the web is not the best thing, especially if you have never graded before. Grading is a lot like other skills, it takes much practice, and lots of time spent in learning to be able to do so. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are a couple ways to learn other than just by the internet or having a history of only coin or two in your possession that seem bright and shiny and great to be able to learn to grade. One is a book I refer to at times when trying to grade my own coins. It is called Making The Grade:</p><p><img src="http://www.cheaptreasures.com/assets/images/making-the-grade-01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And the other thing I have found helpful is to purchase already graded examples of a particular coin in MS61-66 (or 67 if not too expensive). Sometimes it is good if you do this with one year but sometimes it doesn&#039;t matter that much if you know how to account for the vagaries of strike, etc for various years and allow for that in your grading. It is basically having a &#039;grading set&#039; in hand that you can refer to.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope at some point in the future you decide to be a bit more realistic and don&#039;t put a grade of MS65+ or MS67 on that coin. It is not that.</p><p>Your coin has noticable detracting contact marks and minor blemishes that probably preclude it being a MS64. And some are in the prime focal areas. To be a MS65 it can have some light, scattered contact marks, but not in the prime focal areas. Also, for a MS65, the Overall eye appeal must be very pleasing. That means to many collectors, not just to you as an individual. This coin is not as pleasing eye appeal as ones that are regularly graded a MS65. As far as higher grades than MS65 go, these are limited in the number of contact marks and where they are. Your coin does not make that grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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