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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2457674, member: 76863"]Their posts were calling the story into question that it was ever in a 62 slab which they weren't the only ones thinking that, not way to draw any conclusions about their familiarity of the system from those posts. If it isn't in the slab just look at it as if it never was slabbed and form your own opinion not start off with what it supposedly was. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the EAC grade from the grading book and Pennywise articles I am sure you have read there is no such thing as an official EAC grade. They have their own system but they all grade a little differently within that system which is why you often see big auction houses print the name of what member assigned it the EAC grade to give people perspective on how they generally grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the grade on that one if you look on page 139 of your book your are probably looking at a 53 range imo, their 58s/60s basically have to have full mint luster. To give you an idea how some of them grade Bill Noyes graded the PCGS MS 69 1793 Wreath Cent as a 63+. Del Bland apparently gave it an MS 60. <a href="http://old.stacksbowers.com/archivedetail.aspx?productid=1363381" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://old.stacksbowers.com/archivedetail.aspx?productid=1363381" rel="nofollow">http://old.stacksbowers.com/archivedetail.aspx?productid=1363381</a>. 58s seem to me to have to be beyond reproach with a number of the hardcore EAC guys.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 2457674, member: 76863"]Their posts were calling the story into question that it was ever in a 62 slab which they weren't the only ones thinking that, not way to draw any conclusions about their familiarity of the system from those posts. If it isn't in the slab just look at it as if it never was slabbed and form your own opinion not start off with what it supposedly was. As far as the EAC grade from the grading book and Pennywise articles I am sure you have read there is no such thing as an official EAC grade. They have their own system but they all grade a little differently within that system which is why you often see big auction houses print the name of what member assigned it the EAC grade to give people perspective on how they generally grade. As far as the grade on that one if you look on page 139 of your book your are probably looking at a 53 range imo, their 58s/60s basically have to have full mint luster. To give you an idea how some of them grade Bill Noyes graded the PCGS MS 69 1793 Wreath Cent as a 63+. Del Bland apparently gave it an MS 60. [url]http://old.stacksbowers.com/archivedetail.aspx?productid=1363381[/url]. 58s seem to me to have to be beyond reproach with a number of the hardcore EAC guys.[/QUOTE]
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