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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2670538, member: 1892&quot;]With all due respect, I&#039;m not buying that wear this visible happens <i>only within a one and one-half millimeter band precisely along the center vertical axis of the coin</i>. Especially when a large percentage of pieces from this year one might observe, including the very highest-graded, Condition Census examples, show the same &quot;wear&quot; to one extent or another. </p><p><br /></p><p>Issue-specific knowledge is relevant here. &quot;Wear&quot; on the shield like that does not appear until lower XF grades on this issue; if it were Circulated, based on the shield detail I wouldn&#039;t go over XF40 for it. And by that point, the outline of the shield should also be mostly obscured. Further, in XF the raised ridge around &quot;C&quot; on the reverse should be nearly worn away.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not that I agree with NGC on the grade, either. The coin looks like it&#039;s been in a rock tumbler, and given the near-Details condition of the rims I was seriously considering MS60-61 for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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