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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;evillageprowler, post: 604, member: 131&quot;]Reid,</p><p><br /></p><p>I went to your web site and read your blurb about the lousy ED&#039;s.&nbsp; Interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I noticed from your web site that I wish to discuss...&nbsp; You seem to think that the services messed up with those examples because they slabbed specimens that are overgraded or have lousy eye appeal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s talk about the overgrading issue.&nbsp; You go by amount of remaining central detail, as with the 1799 dollar.&nbsp; (Yes, I know that the coin is also unoriginal and likely harshly cleaned!)&nbsp; With the central detail as weak as it is, you say that the coin is a VF specimen.&nbsp; NGC should not have given it a ChVF grade.&nbsp; From looking at the periphery, it seems to me that the star detail would suggest a grade more like ChVF.&nbsp; Thus, the central detail is due to strike and not wear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Onto the lousy eye appeal issue, as with that 1800 dollar...&nbsp; Many coins with lousy eye appeal get slabbed.&nbsp; It is, unfortunately, a part of the industry.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, I think it is worth mentioning that ED&#039;s (in fact, all Bust coinage) are VERY hard to grade properly.&nbsp; The range of subjectivity is very wide.</p><p><br /></p><p>EVP[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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