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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 683240, member: 112&quot;]Here ya go Mark, verbatim from the PCGS standards -</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Thus, while technically the average grade for a coin&#039;s two sides may be MS65 (MS63 obv &amp; MS67 rev), market wise the coin trades as MS63.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>And from the ANA standards - </p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;In reality, the market grade of a coin is the lower of the two grades of its sides.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>And even from Jim Halperin&#039;s book on grading - </p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;However, its overall grading would be Proof-63 since a coin&#039;s grade is largely determined by its worst side.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>That said, every single article, every book, everything I have ever read, says the same thing - a coin is graded according to its worst side.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I would ask you Mark, what makes you say differently ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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