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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mark_h, post: 2323834, member: 3726&quot;]This is a very good example, because I typically do not look at dark toned coins.&nbsp; I usually flat out skip coins in the local dealer shops with that fugly toning I think you are talking about.&nbsp;&nbsp; Basically I do this with all coins - and from pictures it can be really hard, but lets say I have the coin in hand.&nbsp;&nbsp; When I look at it I technical grade it - can I see the luster, or too many distracting hits.&nbsp; That gets me a grade.&nbsp; Then I ask myself - does this coin have my eye appeal - nope, so back it goes and on to the next.&nbsp; I don&#039;t assume the TPG got it wrong, I don&#039;t assume it is not typical eye appeal of the grade -&nbsp; it is just not what I am looking for in that grade for that coin.&nbsp; So what I deem as eye appealing does not come into play on getting a grade.&nbsp; Now when looking at it in hand - I might not see the luster to call it 65 just because of the dark toning so I might very well come up with a technical grade of 64 or even 63.&nbsp; The result is the same back goes the coin into the dealers case.&nbsp; I do not say the grade is 64 because of eye appeal - I will say I can&#039;t see the luster to call it a 65.&nbsp; I personally think coins can be strong for the grade and be bugly(and not typical for the grade and this fugly toning is an example).</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people really like those darkly tone coins, they have great eye appeal to them - so I do not knock what they like or drop a grade because it is what I do not like.&nbsp; As a matter of fact I usually think the tpg saw something I did not to warrant the grade, but in either case I am not buying the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I think about all the GTG we have had on here where people explain the reason the gave the grade they did - it is typically technical reasons they provide on why they gave the coin the grade the did. To me personal eye appeal is the last factor to buying a coin, not getting the grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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