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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2461259, member: 24314&quot;]The only thing rotting around here or in the mix is the 5% of old collectors such as myself who are stuck in the past and very close to death.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To paraphrase Q. David Bowers in &quot;Grading Coins by Photographs&quot; which should be in every SERIOUS collectors library along with the 7th Edition (NOT any of the earlier editions) of the ANA Grading Guide and perhaps Making the Grade:&nbsp; Coins that were formerly considered to be AU-58 are now graded as high as MS-62 (I think he wrote MS-63 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":eggface:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Technically the coin is a split grade MS/AU.&nbsp; I looked at the reverse again.&nbsp; Most of the discoloration on the eagle is from compression or &quot;stacking&quot; which is OK (to the professionals) on an Uncirculated coin.&nbsp; Nevertheless, there is also a very slight amount of actual friction in the middle of the flattened, stacking luster.&nbsp; As I wrote before, the reverse is a technical AU-58.&nbsp; .</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now back to the real world.&nbsp; No grading service, PNG dealer, intelligent commercial grader would ever call this coin AU anything!&nbsp; Take that to the bank.&nbsp; Learn it so you don&#039;t sell a coin as an AU only to see it graded later as aMS-65 in the REAL WORLD.&nbsp; That being said, every knowledgeable, long time numismatic expert here has their own standards for grading.&nbsp; Call the coin what you will.&nbsp; Thanks to the OP, IMO it is a perfect example for us to see his point.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[USER=9270]@kanga[/USER]&nbsp; IMO there is nothing &quot;small&quot; about the marks on that coin![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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