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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3568721, member: 66"]All grading is subjective and a matter of opinion, so what is "correct"?  And if what you mean is "how does it compare to what PCGS would call it?"  Compared to what PCGS would have called it in 1991, or 2019? Compugrade and PCGS's Expert system both debuted at the ANA convention in August 1991.  Neither lasted til the end of the year.  Something to note, both involved as their first step scanning of the coin, mapping marks and defects , and creating a "digital fingerprint" of the coin that would allow it to be recognized if it was ever resubmitted.  (Something that would come in handy for identifying stolled coins that have been cracked out of their holders.)  When PCGS introduced their Secure Shield tier, part of that was once again scanning and creating a digital fingerprint of the coin that would allow it to be recognized if it was ever resubmitted under the Secure Shield tier. ANACS and Amos Press were also working on computer grading at the time (1990).  (I don't know if NGC was but it wouldn't surprise me.)  That was one of the reasons Amos Press bought ANACS, to get their computer grading research.[/QUOTE]