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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 443613, member: 5233&quot;]I don&#039;t think there is a monkey in the room flipping quarters.&nbsp; I simply believe that the line between MS69 and MS70 is so fine that it is hard to distinguish.&nbsp; We all know that all grades have nicer coins than others...no MS65 is the same and the same is true for MS69 coins, they all have minute differences.&nbsp; My feeling about coins that grade 70 is they are basically sliders...they could have gone 69 one day and 70 the next.&nbsp; I have never seen anything that &quot;locks&quot; a coin as a 70.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of that Jefferson, I will admit that I missed that mark when I first looked over the coin.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t look at it super close...and I missed it.&nbsp; In my opinion, I am a little surprised that coin graded MS69 with a mark like that.&nbsp; I would have expected it as an MS68.&nbsp; But, I&#039;m not a professional...just an amateur who loves coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is my opinion to prefer coins that might have the smallest imperfection if I can get another different coin with that money saved.&nbsp; That&#039;s the trade off that I take.&nbsp; Again, with these modern commeratives...the difference in value typically isn&#039;t that much.&nbsp; But, when it&#039;s a difference of $20 or $5000 because of one little mark that I probably won&#039;t even see unless I look really close...I&#039;ll take the $20 coin.&nbsp; That&#039;s just how I feel.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I feel like this conversation has gotten a little heated just because we all have our own view of &quot;value.&quot;&nbsp; That MS70 Ike may have gone for $5000...it had that value to someone out there with a lot of money.&nbsp; But it doesn&#039;t to me...and I think that is how the majority of people here think.&nbsp; That&#039;s all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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