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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ffrickey, post: 2138057, member: 20613&quot;]The MS numbers refer to coin quality.&nbsp; You can find a beginner&#039;s guide to grading at <a href="http://coins.about.com/od/coingrading/qt/coin_grading101.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/coingrading/qt/coin_grading101.htm" rel="nofollow">http://coins.about.com/od/coingrading/qt/coin_grading101.htm</a>.</p><p>IMHO grades 65 and above are just minor differences in degree of perfection, and hardly relevant for most historical coins (I&#039;m sure one of the monitors will jump on me for this heresy).&nbsp; Perhaps more interesting for dedicated collectors of American coins only -- they&#039;ve only been around for about 270 years.</p><p>A better picture would help, I get what I think are fine results with an Olympus VG-130 pocket camera resting on a drill press.[ATTACH]408209[/ATTACH] </p><p>Though of course profis with a bigger camera can do better.</p><p>FYI my 6th edition Standard Catalog lists the 1900 4 Dukat at</p><p>Very Fine- $450, Extremely Fine-800, Uncirculated-1350, and Brilliant Uncirculated-1600.&nbsp; That was with an assumed gold price of $950-1000 an ounce.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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