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<p>[QUOTE="Mark T, post: 871964, member: 20061"]<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">You and I are not in full agreement here but I don’t think we are that far apart either. We both agree the coin suffered from a weak reverse strike. We don’t agree on how much that affected the grade for this coin. I will concede that once a coin gets to a certain level of wear strike should be much less a determining factor for grade . </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Lets assume that PCGS did not net grade and graded based on the lower grade of the obverse or reverse. If that was the case then the probability that they took strike into consideration is rather high. How else would a coin like this get a F 12 grade without the graders being on Happy Pills. </font></font><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Now lets assume they did net grade and did not take strike into consideration , then they took a VF 20 obverse and a VG 08 Reverse and came up with F 12 . Based on the experience with my FH at both NGC and PCGS I would conclude that PCGS may factor in strike on a lower grade coin and NGC does not . </font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mark T, post: 871964, member: 20061"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]You and I are not in full agreement here but I don’t think we are that far apart either. We both agree the coin suffered from a weak reverse strike. We don’t agree on how much that affected the grade for this coin. I will concede that once a coin gets to a certain level of wear strike should be much less a determining factor for grade . [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Lets assume that PCGS did not net grade and graded based on the lower grade of the obverse or reverse. If that was the case then the probability that they took strike into consideration is rather high. How else would a coin like this get a F 12 grade without the graders being on Happy Pills. [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Now lets assume they did net grade and did not take strike into consideration , then they took a VF 20 obverse and a VG 08 Reverse and came up with F 12 . Based on the experience with my FH at both NGC and PCGS I would conclude that PCGS may factor in strike on a lower grade coin and NGC does not . [/FONT][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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