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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 495401, member: 15062&quot;]I&#039;m struggling mightily to understand this concept.&nbsp; It sounds like you&#039;re saying that it would be impossible to grade a coin without knowing its date and mint.&nbsp; For instance, could you grade the 1922 and 1924 Peaces that Lehigh showed in his post if the dates were obscured?&nbsp; If yes, what grades would give them?&nbsp; If not, why not?</p><p><br /></p><p>To me it&#039;s ludicrous to think that the date is an important and deciding part of grading (assuming the date isn&#039;t damaged, or at least not any more that the other parts of the mottoes and devices).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe since I&#039;m looking at this from the viewpoint of a type collector, my thoughts are a lot different from series collectors.&nbsp; The date has no real meaning to me.&nbsp; I simply try to obtain the best representative coin of each type and I couldn&#039;t care less what the date or mint is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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