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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2532731, member: 1892&quot;]I would not dare consider myself a qualified EAC-system grader, but with what I&#039;ve learned over the years about their style a somewhat-educated guess is possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two PCGS S-163&#039;s - an XF 40 and XF45 - referred to as 30&#039;s in their respective writeups, two of the three finest known:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/large-cents/1798-1c-first-hair-xf40-pcgs-s-163-b-19-r4/a/460-2166.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/large-cents/1798-1c-first-hair-xf40-pcgs-s-163-b-19-r4/a/460-2166.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/large-cents/1798-1c-first-hair-xf40-pcgs-s-163-b-19-r4/a/460-2166.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://images.goldbergauctions.com/php/lot_auc.php?site=169&amp;sale=90&amp;lot=155" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://images.goldbergauctions.com/php/lot_auc.php?site=169&amp;sale=90&amp;lot=155" rel="nofollow">http://images.goldbergauctions.com/php/lot_auc.php?site=169&amp;sale=90&amp;lot=155</a></p><p><br /></p><p>With these as a comparison, I feel yours suffers from a slightly lesser strike and a planchet imperfection on the right side of both obverse and reverse, but it suffers very little indeed in terms of strict remaining detail. The hair is, excepting the very bottom curl, superior to both. Where strike has not affected the leaves on the reverse, yours is again superior. Aside the aforementioned planchet irregularity, the fields of your coin are <b>clearly</b> superior to the Heritage coin and certainly no poorer than the Goldberg coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on what I see and know, if there are three coins atop the Condition Census (assuming the third is the equal of the other two), then yours belongs in fourth place. Sharpness of 25, Net 20, and I&#039;m being pessimistic at that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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