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<p>[QUOTE="Pickin and Grinin, post: 7886050, member: 73995"]What you grade a Washington should always be harder than what the TPG's grade.</p><p>I have always taken that approach when I buy them. Any hairlines will be visible even through that heavily toned coin. The heavy toning makes me think that it has circulated. Just because I think that it probably grades at AU doesn't mean that there is not enough luster left and has hidden hairlines. The dark marks of the tips of the highpoints say that it has seen enough circulation to be deemed at least a slider in todays market. I wouldn't expect gem from that one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pickin and Grinin, post: 7886050, member: 73995"]What you grade a Washington should always be harder than what the TPG's grade. I have always taken that approach when I buy them. Any hairlines will be visible even through that heavily toned coin. The heavy toning makes me think that it has circulated. Just because I think that it probably grades at AU doesn't mean that there is not enough luster left and has hidden hairlines. The dark marks of the tips of the highpoints say that it has seen enough circulation to be deemed at least a slider in todays market. I wouldn't expect gem from that one.[/QUOTE]
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