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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7360595, member: 105098&quot;]The grading companies are less critical on the contact marks due to the ike dollars size and much more critical on the depth of the strike when grading them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Strongly struck and &quot;odd&quot; looking compared to what you are used to seeing grades highly even if it&#039;s got a bunch of contact marks. I don&#039;t know how to explain it besides maybe &quot;crocodile eyes and really sharp bust outline&quot; as an identifier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe they are grading them on a sliding scale in a way, but they are valuing a strong strike over surface condition/contact marks which at least in my opinon, on the ike series, it&#039;s justified. The strong examples should be graded highly vs. The standard soft strikes that look flat and the big heavy coins get banged up, there&#039;s no way around that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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