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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 1252189, member: 31286&quot;]I recently completed a set of Carson City Morgan dollars - at least one from every year anyway.&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#039;ve tried to stick with high grade circulated coins, but in the case of the common hoard years I picked up some better grades because they were available at relatively low cost.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to find XF/XF details or better in 11 of 13 years.&nbsp; The exceptions are 1879 and 1893 where I was able to find VF and VF details respectively. Only a few of the 13 are graded and of those, the only &quot;detail&quot; coins are 1889 and 1893.&nbsp; I&#039;m not crazy about low cost/valued graded &amp; slabbed coins,&nbsp; but in the case of the years where they are valued so much higher, like 1889 of course, a graded coin seemed to make sense - especially with the counterfeit problem.&nbsp; I like what I wound up with, but the grading seems confusing - it doesn&#039;t seem logical to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1889 is in an older ANACS holder, graded XF details, NET VF20 because of a scratch on the reverse - and not such a bad scratch, really, for a circulated coin. Looking at purely graded VF20 coins, there&#039;s a huge difference. So, while I think I understand the logic of a NET grade - like what it adds up to considering all factors - in this case, why would the NET grade go all the way to the bottom of the VF fine grade ladder, rather than just dropping to VF 30 or 35?&nbsp; Maybe this is why they don&#039;t provide net grades anymore?&nbsp; I notice that now they just say XF details and that&#039;s it.&nbsp; Some pictures are attached.&nbsp; [ATTACH]134834.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]134835.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]134836.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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