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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 4330966, member: 42034&quot;]Yes, I know.&nbsp; I often disagree with NGC grading and will look at nice-appearing CAC or + ms-62 Classic Heads but simply don&#039;t want to spend the $ necessary to get a full &quot;attractive&quot; 63.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a cheaper foreign coin which I think was a little undergraded in a 62 slab.&nbsp; But it also shows the insanity of just a number.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://coinsandhistory.com/pix_shared/pix_cointalk/Per_8E_1826Cz_both_800x400_HA.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Among other things, I collect the early coinage of Independent Latin American countries.&nbsp; This is the country of Peru&#039;s 1st gold coin &amp; the finest known specimen. It&#039;s a NGC-62.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s ex-Eliasberg &amp; then resold during a summer Heritage auction where I snagged it for [I think] a little under $4k.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is NO high point friction, &amp; NO hairlines [endemic on Latin American coinage]. Some scattered light bagmarks in the obverse fields but no scratches. The only reason it&#039;s a 62 are the obvious flan problems reverse.&nbsp; However come on, this was the new country of Peru, having won their Revolutionary war against Spain that same year.&nbsp; They were having a really difficult time making any coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes it&#039;s a 62 but due to the flan flaws from a country just emerging from a revolutionary war, things were a little different than say England in the 1820&#039;s.&nbsp; I actually have another one of these: a little nicer, a cameo PL 1840 but still a NGC-62.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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