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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2820336, member: 24314&quot;]<b><span style="color: #ff0000">Actually it is NOT!</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>As with most things contributing to a coin&#039;s grade, there are &quot;degrees&quot; involved.&nbsp; Degrees in luster, degrees in the severity of marks, degrees in cleaning, and degrees in strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, in the &quot;old days&quot; (before 1977) your coin would have been described as having a &quot;very flat strike&quot; by students/instructors in a coin grading seminar.&nbsp; Additionally, it would not have been called a &quot;mint error&quot; by any professional numismatist dealing in errors! </p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO, while that label is a howling joke, the coin inside is a beautiful example of a flat strike.&nbsp; Consider me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> an idiot but I should rather own your coin than one graded MS-66 in spite of the price difference![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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