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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Breakdown, post: 850170, member: 19532&quot;]PCGS as part of its The Big One announcement, formalized some guidelines for eye appeal as it relates to grading: <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/eyeappeal.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/eyeappeal.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/eyeappeal.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My initial reaction was it seems helpful to have visual examples to better understand PCGS grading.&nbsp; What I found most interesting is the acknowledgment that PCGS will bump a coin&#039;s technical grade up to &quot;a full point&quot; if it has &quot;amazing&quot; eye appeal.&nbsp; This strikes me as a poke (intentional or not) at NGC&#039;s star designation which denotes a coin &quot;superior in eye appeal to more typical coins of the same grade&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As I have said before on here, one reason I have never liked the star designation is that you shouldn&#039;t segregate eye appeal from the grade.&nbsp; Not only does PCGS apparently agree with that, they have now formally stated it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Am I missing something here?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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