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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 957861, member: 26302&quot;]Fair enough, though I don&#039;t remember them stating that back in the 80&#039;s when it started. I still remember PCGS and NGC stating that 70 was purely theoretical, that such a coin cannot exist. But that was when they didn&#039;t grade modern coins either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still believe a flaw could be found using 5x power. I mean, the flan has to be perfect, the die perfect, the strike, everything. I just don&#039;t believe anything mechanically made can be perfect. The problem is that once a 70 was graded, another coin that was just a good, (though still not theoretically perfect), also qualified.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I am just too old and grumpy for all of this overgrading business. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> And Doug is right, a 66 or 67 ANYTHING used to be front page news, now those coins are cracked out and come back 68 or 69. Grade inflation is completely out of hand. Remember, MS63 is supposed to be &quot;ABOVE AVERAGE in terms of strike and appearance, with most coins not achieveing this grade&quot;. That what it originally was.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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